Posted November 11, 2010 by Chris

While more of a novelty than a pyro project, here is the world’s largest SNES controller. It does actually work and there’s a funny youtube video of it in action. While mostly a mechanical engineering feat, I’d still love to see one of these modeled after an N64 controller.

Posted October 22, 2010 by Chris

This project takes a compact SNES console and rewires a whole bunch to make it into a portable gaming system. The project write-up is very thorough so anyone should be able to follow it. At very least, skim through it to see an awesome creation.

Posted September 30, 2010 by Chris

This project took a plastic AK-47 and removed the insides, then repackaged and rewired as necessary to move the Wiimote IR-sensor into the muzzle and wire up the trigger with a switch. Also, the nunchuck was mounted like a vertical grip so it can be easily grasped and used.

Posted September 10, 2010 by Chris

If you’ve ever wanted to hack into the gameboy advanced, take a look at this article. In this project a PIC microcontroller takes advantage of a GBA screen to output some a/d values. The project has detailed software and hardware of how the hack was performed. Enjoy!

Posted September 2, 2010 by Chris

Every once in a while someone with wayyy too much spare time does something cool with lego’s mindstorms. Bringing you back to all those stuffed animals you won but didn’t need, this is the lego crane. The building instructions are even available for this, but most important is the must see video of the crane in action.

Posted September 21, 2009 by Chris

Today we see a spectacular display of how far legos have come into the modern world. The programmable interface with the once simple lego mindstorms has become complicated enough to make sudoku solvers!

Posted February 18, 2009 by Chris

This version of pong is fairly like the original one but the hardware used is minuscule in comparison. Using only a 12xxxxPIC to do all the hard labor, this project plays pong on a TV with two controllers for input.

Posted February 8, 2009 by Chris

We’ve seen quite a few DIY Oscilloscopes and here one more! This one is rather unique in that it as minimal as possible using a 12xxxx series PIC and outputting to a standard TV.

Posted September 15, 2008 by Chris

The Weeboy is quite the spin-off of the Wiimote. It uses an accelerometer to detect tilt and has a built in game around this sensor. This means, no joystick or gamepad, only a box that you tilt in every which way to play the game. Software & hardware schematics are available for download.

Posted July 28, 2008 by Chris

Play pong like you never have before! This is an incredibly intuitive way of playing a video game, on a rolla bolla bongo. The project write-up explains how it actually works and how much fun it is to play. If you’re an old school die-hard pong fan, this is for you!