If you like video games and DIY electronics have a look at this cool version of Tetris that Adam Papamarcos and Kerran Flanagan made. It’s called Human Tetris since you need to use your body to simulate the puzzle shapes to play the game. This is another great project from the Cornell ECE 4760 Course. Unlike most of the 4760 projects this team went to the extra trouble of having
This Playstation Portable LED Controller Board project that is sure to make your PSP stand out from the crowd. A tiny surface mount PICAXE microcontroller was mounted to a tiny custom board and custom programmed to provide a nice LED display. Doesn’t seem to be much details of the build, hopefully there is more detail to come. “I wanted the board to fit snugly inside the psp so that if
In this GSR-Monkey (Skin Conductance Measurement System) Martin Sona uses the principle of galvanic skin response to plot some data onto a grid. Two people can be connected and monitored at the same time. I can imagine using this system as a two way lie detector, how often do you get to turn the tables when performing a lie detector test? Via: Hacked Gadgets Comments “The hardware (besides the PC
Luis sent in this neat game that he built using an ATmega 328 microcontroller. He is from Honduran and this system was featured as the first video game system made in Honduras on several local newspapers and some local TV programs. “This is a monochrome game with monaural sound I created using an atmega328. The circuit has 3 MCUs (One for composite video, the IR receiver de-codifier, and the last
Our friends over at Gadget Gangster have recently released the El Jugador – Open-Source Game Console. If you had an old game console growing up it will probably bring back come memories. You can also see some additional information in the Instructable. Via: HG Forum “Features: Make your own games with just a little coding experience SD Card bootloader so you don’t need any special programming hardware PAL or NTSC
This Step-a-Sketch project is sure to bring back some memories if you are around my age. I remember having one of these growing up, I think I got it for a Christmas present one year. Unfortunately it was killed when I was going through my how does this work phase. Almost everything with screws around me got taken apart, some were even put back successfully. By using a PIC 16f84a
If you love old video games this new version of PONG is sure to make you smile. The guys over at Evil Mad Scientists Laboratories have knocked this one out of the park! It is mostly laser cut plywood and plastic with only a touch of electronics. Via: Hack A Day “Inside the wooden paddle box are two timing belt pulleys. One is turned directly by a knob that will
