Posts with «fun & games» label
3D Print These Custom Cars And Race Them On Your Tabletop
Bridging the gap between the virtual world and the real world is a popular topic these days. Augmented reality, Google Cardboard, and games like Skylanders are just a few products that allow us to interact in both the physical and virtual. Now, 3DRacers hope to send your Mario Kart addiction into […]
New Project: Two Player Simon Memory Game With External Switches
I designed a two player version of Simon that runs on Arduino, letting you play head to head.
Animating A Halloween Door Knocker with Digispark
A software engineer turns a cheap $5 Halloween decoration into an animated nightmare.
A Digispark development board controls the LED eyes and knocker actuator for haunting effects.
Go to the Milwaukee Maker Faire and Solve the Laser Maze
If you want to channel your inner Catherine Zeta-Jones and give it a shot yourself, take a crack at the Laser Maze.
Eduardo Zola Upgrades Little Pong with New Pong v2.0
Eduardo Zola’s New Pong v2.0 offers up retro gaming goodness using a pair of 8 X 8 LED matrix boards.
A MAX7219 and Arduino MEGA 2560 microcontroller provide the muscle to get the game off and running.
A game controller that’s mondo customizable with Lego and Android
Strange Meadowlark’s Lego/Arduino Game Controller is a collection of off the shelf parts and surplus that fit together perfectly.
Ode to the Gameboy: 10 Projects Based on the Iconic Portable Nintendo
When the Nintendo Gameboy was first released in 1989, it was a tremendous commercial success. Gameboy developed a following among gamers that is in many ways still alive to this day. Here are 10 awesome projects inspired by the venerable Gameboy. Some merge the latest maker electronics with late-80s Gameboy […]
Smartphone Rocket Launcher
In the iPhone ad “Powerful,” actors launched a group of model rockets with an iPhone. You can view the ad here. I thought this was insanely cool, but in typical Apple fashion, I couldn’t find out how they did it. I decided to take matters into my own hands and build […]
