Collaborate Disseminate
Sometimes a project is borne simply out of the fact that some interesting parts have been left sitting around too long. Of course, this is as good a reason to build as any other, and can often lead to some interesting results. [Jorj Bauer]’s Tetris Display is one such project. …read more
We have had no shortage of clock projects over the years, and this one is entertaining because it spells the time out using Tetris-style blocks. The project looks good and is adaptable to different displays. The code is on GitHub and it relies on a Tetris library that has been …read more
Like many other classics it’s easy to come up with ways to ruin Tetris, but hard to think of anything that will make it better. Adding more clickiness is definitely one way to improve the game, and playing Tetris on a flip-dot display certainly manages to achieve that.
The surplus …read more
Continue reading The Clickiest Game Of Tetris You’ll Ever Play, On A Flip-Dot
[Robson] had been using the same multimeter since he was 15. It wasn’t a typical multimeter, either. He had programmed it to also play the Google Chrome jumping dinosaur game, and also used it as a badge at various conferences. But with all that abuse, the ribbon cable broke and …read more
Continue reading Play Tetris on a Transistor Tester, Because Why Not?
A $150 million mansion is hijacked online, Brits will soon have to scan their passport to watch internet porn, and are organisations right to pay up when hit by ransomware?
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning … Continue reading Smashing Security #119: Hijacked homes, porn passports, and ransomware regret
[Maarten Tromp] recently took the time to document some of the unusual and creative electronic projects he received as gifts over the years. These gadgets were created in the early 2000’s and still work flawlessly today. Two of our favorites are shown here: Hardware Tetris Unit (shown in the image above) and Heap of Electronic Parts.
Heap of Electronic Parts was a kind of hardware puzzle and certainly lives up to its name. It’s a bunch of parts soldered in a mystifying way to the backs of four old EPROMs — the chips with the little window through which …read more
Continue reading Years Don’t Dim The Shine of These Curious Gadgets
The only question we have about [mitxela]’s DIY vector graphics game console is: Why did he wait five years to tell the world about it?
Judging by the projects we’ve seen before, from his tiny LED earrings to cramming a MIDI synthesizer into both a DIN plug and later a USB plug, [mitxela] likes a challenge. And while those projects were underway, the game console you’ll see in the video below was sitting on the shelf, hidden away from the world. That’s a shame, because this is quite a build.
Using a CRT oscilloscope in X-Y mode as a vector …read more
Continue reading Delicious Vector Game Console Runs Pac-Man, Tetris, and Mario
The only question we have about [mitxela]’s DIY vector graphics game console is: Why did he wait five years to tell the world about it?
Judging by the projects we’ve seen before, from his tiny LED earrings to cramming a MIDI synthesizer into both a DIN plug and later a USB plug, [mitxela] likes a challenge. And while those projects were underway, the game console you’ll see in the video below was sitting on the shelf, hidden away from the world. That’s a shame, because this is quite a build.
Using a CRT oscilloscope in X-Y mode as a vector …read more
Continue reading Delicious Vector Game Console Runs Pac-Man, Tetris, and Mario
The cathode-ray tube ruled the display world from the earliest days of TV until only comparatively recently, when flat-screen technology began to take over. CRTs just kept getting bigger over that time until they reached a limit beyond which the tubes got just too bulky to be practical.
But there was action at the low end of the CRT market, too. Tiny CRTs popped up in all sorts of products, from camcorders to the famous Sony Watchman. One nifty CRT from this group, a flat(tish) tube from a video intercom system, ended up in [bitluni]’s lab, where he’s in the …read more
Continue reading Unique Flat-Screen Display Put to Use in CRT Game Boy
This is the first time that a brain-to-brain interface has incorporated more than two people. Continue reading Researchers Mind-Melded Three People to Collaboratively Play ‘Tetris’