Tetranitrate has created a nice looking DIY LED Chess Set. It looks a bit time consuming to build, but the results are great! "Sixteen blue LEDs and sixteen green LEDs are glued inside the hollow recesses in the base of each chess piece. The positive contacts for the LEDs are wired to copper washers attached to the base of each chess piece. The negative contacts for the LEDs are
If you want to up improve your gaming skills, this Joystick Macro Hack is just what you need. If you are like me and can’t press the fire button as quickly as you would like your problems are over. With this mod you can program two special function buttons that will give you super human strength (when it comes to quick button presses). "This mod is fairly simple to
You have seen the Staubli Robot under Wiimote control, now have a look at a Mitsubishi PA10 Robot Arm being operated in real time using a Nintendo Wiimote. The inspiration for this project was from this Wiimote Sword hack. Non-translated page. "It was quickly decided that the same could be made much cooler and, not least in real time with our PA10 robot. And with PA10’ens open interface, it
If you have access to an industrial robot why not implement a Nintendo Wii Remote (Wiimote) to control it. The control it gives you would be more natural than the controls that the manufacturer gives you! Have a look at the other projects being worked on at the Robotics and Embedded Systems at the Technical University of Munich. "This is a small presentation of a university project I have
Matthieu Deru and Simon Bergweiler from the German Research Center have put together an impressive hack that allows you to Fly in Google Earth using the Wii Balance Board "After hours of testing and C# coding, you can now use your Wii Balance Board as a new input device."
By the sounds of it the Maker Faire is getting bigger and bigger each year. I think I need to make some time and go next year… DL.TV went down and covered the event along with many others. "Wow! Another great Maker Faire. Thanks to everyone who came out and supported the 3rd annual Maker Faire, and a special thanks to our Makers, Crafters, Sponsors, Exhibitors and the amazing
iHacked has a video that shows the method to repair your XBox 360 by allowing the GPU solder joints to reflow. You may have seen the towel method that looks simple but has questionable results. "Generally, the 3rrod error is caused by a solder problem, where points on the GPU/CPU have worked loose – or a temperature problem causing the same result. Following this guide, you should be able to
