There is something special about playing a real stand up video game compared to playing one with a handheld controller. Aaron (x2Jiggy) has made a controller that interfaces buttons to a handheld controller to bring that special feeling to the home. Â “The method involves soldering wires to the button contacts on the XBox controllers circuit board, using these connections we can activate the controllers inputs using our arcade hardware.
Wow, don’t fool around with this Spy Video Trakr hacked to shoot Missiles if you want to keep your eyes! Driving around a Spy Video Trakr is fun but shooting things with it looks to notch up the fun a few levels. Click hre “This hack is not too expensive (the most costly part is buying the actual turret) or overly complex, but does require a degree of soldering
  Check out this cool DIY Arduino Oscilloscope which uses a cheap Nokia 3310 Screen which can often be found for $5 or $10. Watch the video below to see how surprisingly good this thing actually works!  “The setup is really simple, connect an Arduino Pro Mini to a Nokia 3310 LCD screen, sample an analog port and then wright the pixels to the screen. I even added two
Who says The Clapper is old technology? Pete Mills blows off the dust from the vintage tech and breaths new life into the idea. The new Clever Clapper uses Claps and Laser Beams to control the Lights!  “In my version of the clapper if you clap twice within one second, the circuit toggles the lamp output. On becomes off and vice versa. If you clap three times within one
Check out this Sound Responsive Dress which listens to the singers voice and adjusts accordingly. In the picture below you can see the electronics that run the dress mounted to the wall. Thanks to Mitch for sending this in. “It’s a sound-responsive dress that uses Processing (heavily using the Minim code library) and Arduino to map the singer’s voice onto an array of spinning strings. The strings, in turn,
Breadboards make building circuits quite simple, how could it get any simpler that a breadboard? The answer is Snap Circuits. With the different component pieces all you need to do is snap them together to build your circuit, this might be a great way to learn circuits for the first time since the schematic is a picture of the actual build layout. Krash made a robot from them to
 James Burton from XRobots.co.uk has sent in the latest progress on his Bipedal Dynamic Stability Testing. Looks to be moving along very well. “It’s about half the height of an average person and I built all the parts from scratch with hand tools. It’s basically intended as a development platform so I have some more to build and some more experiments to do, but I’m at the stage
