Tag: HOMEBREW

Some folks online are up in arms over the arrest of geek-supreme Matthew Crippen, a student at California State University at Fullerton. According to the charges, Crippen was illegally modding gaming consoles to play pirated games, and doing so for financial gain. Modding game consoles is, in fact, a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Note: Don't post pirated products, ...

Have you ever stared at a garbage can and wished you could command it to come towards you? No? Then you may still be interested in this new speech-controlled trash can built by DIY-er Amnon, which will respond to your beck and call, yet never stray beyond the safe confines of your carefully laid out tape route (sure to compliment any room). Unfortunately, there isn't a step-by-step guide for ...

Crazy us, we thought that a remote control was meant to keep you on the couch -- it does seem rather counter-intuitive to build one that makes you leave your seat and jump around within arm's reach of the TV set. But when this guy saw an over-sized novelty remote at Brookstone, he knew that he had to have it. Not only that, but he had to best it -- by fashioning a controller for Windows Media ...

We have a new winner for geekiest marriage proposal ever. Proposing in 'Second Life' and 'World of Warcraft' is so 2007. Now you uber dorks will have to top Bernie, a Xanga user who wrote a version of 'Bejeweled' from scratch for his girlfriend's Nintendo DS. When his girlfriend, Tammy, reached a certain score, the screen cleared and ring made out of the game's namesake jewels lowered on to the ...