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Whip up a cuppa over the Internet
Coffee lovers, rejoice! There is now a way for you to conjure a cup of hot joe just the way you like it via an Internet connection, courtesy of some caffeine lovers with a penchant for DIY. This unique coffee making machine is powered by the O2M8 WebBrick controller that is used for automation in houses. Guess there is nothing quite like a little bit of imagination to perk you up during those slow Monday afternoons. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to catch up on any water cooler gossip with this one since you’ll still be sitting all alone by your computer while keying in an order.
Source: Engadget
DIY Gadgets, Gaming Gadgets
More ways to recycle your NES controller
Since the NES sold like a gazillion units back in the 80s, it makes perfect sense to have even more controllers lying around, waiting to be recycled (or suffer a different fate). For those with a penchant for DIY items, why not turn this into a coin purse as depicted here? The NES controller has also been lined with an adorable looking fabric. You should be able to find plenty of such NES controllers on eBay before you embark on this project. Would be nice to see this compartmentalized inside to store DS cards instead.
Source: DS Fanboy
DIY Gadgets, Home Gadgets
Asthma patients get welcome relief
Asthma patients can be a pretty fragile bunch, and in poorer countries, these people rarely have the opportunity nor purchasing power to pick up a “spacer” that actually creates an air chamber right in front of the mouth, whereby the inhaler will discharge its medicine for the patient to breathe it in easily. These devices could cost around $50 which is definitely out of reach for the destitute, but thankfully brilliant folks from Stanford University’s Design School along with the School of Medicine managed to come up with their own homebrew solution – using the origami concept to build your very own spacer out of paper. The price to pay? Less than a measly quarter.
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Icontech unveils Electric Inflatable Watercraft
Summer is the perfect time to engage in outdoor activity, enabling you to witness the full glory of the sun. What better way than to spend it around nature? Some people might prefer to head for the hills (in a positive manner, of course) while others prefer to spend a quiet day by the lake, waiting for the fish to bite. For those who love to engage in water activities, jet skis are definitely fun, but wait till you check out the Electric Inflatable Watercraft from Icontech. This vehicle is basically a battery powered, sit down product that resembles a jet ski, and is capable of achieving top speeds of 10kmh, making it a viable (and affordable) alternative to those who are just starting out in the wild, wild world of water sports.
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New Hack weds the XBox 360 and a Wii Remote Controller
Taking Halo or Call to Duty to a whole new level, Hackers have created an Wii IR Remote sensor and driver to port the trademarked remote setup to the Xbox 360. This latest hack turns the epic video game and console into a full fledged killing simulator.
Course, that’s not all the Xbox is good for. There’s sports games like Madden NFL, MLB Baseball or Tiger Woods Golf, there’s even hack and slash games like The Elder Scrolls. Imagine firing a phaser for the latest Star Trek Legacy game, or Battling for Middle Earth in The Lord of the Rings (can we virtually put “my precious on?”), the possibilities are endless (especially when you have this hero game pack which let’s you strap on the sword and shield).
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DIY Gadgets, Gaming Gadgets
NES controller now controls cursor
What a change for the once-mighty NES controller, where it used to control Mario and Samus who saved their respective worlds, all the controller does now is control the cursor on your computer display (not to mention accelerating your path towards RSI due to its obviously unergonomic nature). This DIY project replaces the innards of a NES controller with that of an optical mouse, so you’ll have to invest a fair bit and have a decent amount of technical know-how before embarking upon this project. Definitely one of the fanboys.
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Super Mario Subwoofer
Man, Michael Karpinski must be having some of those mushrooms that Mario thrives on when he created this Super Mario Subwoofer from scratch. Michael has taken the trouble to match the classic “question mark” brick from the Super Mario series of games, complete with a tiny stuffed Yoshi to complete the look. Whenever the volume gets cranked up, you can expect little Yoshi to experience a strange reverberation he never felt before! Don’t expect to purchase this as it is a custom, D.I.Y. job.
Source: Technabob
DIY Gadgets, Electronic Gadgets, Gaming Gadgets
Space Invaders used to tell time
Electronics enthusiast Jason Hickner has gone retro by conjuring up this cool clock that tells the time via a game of Space Invaders. All he needed was an old Sony portable TV and a circuit that generates the video to create the game. To tell the time, each extra life shows the hours, while every alien represents one minute. For those who are too busy to count aliens at a glance, the last four digits of the high score will also do the trick.
Source: MAKE
