Nerd Arts

This is a far out creation by Joey Mariano, aka Animal Style. It is a breakout box for his Gameboy color, which allows him to control each button of the GBC with any foot switch of his choice. The foot switches can even be used to do button combos, for use with nanoloop. And needless to say, the box also features a prosounded output, for optimum audio output quality.

Edit: Fixed the name…

This guy, Kipkay, found an old Star Trek Laser Phaser toy 1976. The design is cool, but the light in it is a tad too wee. So he replaced the original lamp with a laser diode from a PlayStation 3 Blu-Ray laser pickup. The result: A great looking laser beam.

And he even had the courtesy of telling the world how to do it, for under $100!

Instruction Video

Watch full video here

Story Chain GameboyGenious to PlasticBamboo

gameboy chiptune

This tutorial will show you how to disassemble a canon a540/a530 to the sensor to remove the ir cut filter.

Tools:
#00 philips screw driver
soldering iron

couple of notes:
- there is 300 volts or so inside the camera. canon has done a pretty good job shielding those areas, and I haven’t gotten shocked even though my fingers have been everywhere, but be careful anyway. it’s enough energy to kill you several times if you’re unlucky.
- you may end up with an ir sensitive camera, or you may end up buying a new camera.
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Huge archive of free fun, and easy hacks for atari 2600 game console.

from their website.

“What is a Hack you might ask? In the realm of classic video games and the definition we’re using here, a hack is taking an existing game and modifying it in some fashion so that it differs from the original. Almost always this involves just changing the graphics, which is pretty easily done in many games. Some changes are done to make a game more faithful to the original (Space Invaders and Pac-Man seem to get the most attention here), others are done to give a game a different theme entirely and still other hacks, well, we haven’t got a clue. And then there are controller hacks that allow you to play games with a different control scheme, or perhaps even using a different controller entirely.

If you’d like to learn more about hacks and how you can hack Atari 2600 games yourself, please visit our Hacks Forum. If you’ve created a hack and would like it listed here, please feel free to drop us a line. We also have an entire page of 2600 TV Format Conversions.”

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The MAKE Controller Kit

Last year, MAKE magazine approached MakingThings to create the MAKE Controller Kit, a next-generation family of modular, programmable controller boards. We were delighted, and we’re even more delighted to announce that the kit is now available.

Since 1998, MakingThings has been producing and selling a range of controller boards to an even wider range of customers. Before our partnership with MAKE, we had been thinking about how to take advantage of the latest 32-bit microcontrollers. Once we got the go-ahead, we immediately began making laundry lists of desirable features, and collecting suggestions from people using existing products.

We are very pleased with the way the MAKE Controller Kit has turned out. It is an absolute delight to program, and connecting real devices to it is very simple. For the future we look forward to programming more and more functionality into the platform, and seeing what others think of to do with it. Further, we hope the kit attracts a whole new audience to microcontroller programming, and to an overall greater understanding of electronics and engineering.
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These updates are hacks to the “about:config” menu to
improve anonymity and the anonymity set by increasing
the scope of the Tor HTTP/S Header template.

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I bought one of these Commodore 64 (DTV C64 - Direct TV Commodore 64) joysticks on QVC (search for C64 on their site) a few weeks ago, and it’s pretty cool. It has a bunch of classic C64 games programmed in, but it also has a bunch of ‘Easter eggs’ programmed in too. When you first start it up, it shows the C64 startup routine, and if you wiggle the joystick back and forth, you get into C64 basic mode and can type keys on a keyboard using the joystick. There have also been a number of people who have been able to add keyboards and other peripherals on to the joystick.

C64 Group Trinomic
new york times article

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