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Archive for April 2016

Simple Control Interface for Linux Computers: pyLCI

Simple Control Interface for Linux Computers: pyLCI

It’s becoming increasingly clear to makers that single board computers and the DIY devices based on them need control interfaces that are simpler and faster to use than desktop peripherals or even full-on PCs. Pičugins Arsenijs believes he’s come up with a much simpler alternative.

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Street Fighter II Defeated Face Busts: Nine! Eight!..

Street Fighter II Defeated Face Busts: Nine! Eight!..

Milestone reminds us how far Street Fighter‘s art has come with these terribad 2″ busts. They’re 3D versions of the character portraits that appear in Street Fighter II after you’re defeated. Seeing Ryu and the gang beat up makes the “Continue?” prompt seem sarcastic.

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Japan Gets Snoopy Museum to Celebrate Peanuts

Japan Gets Snoopy Museum to Celebrate Peanuts

Most of the Peanuts’ holiday specials and cartoons that were around when I was a kid weren’t exactly new even then. They were always how I knew the holidays were near as a child. It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown told me it was almost time for free candy, and that Christmas was around the corner.

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Roadster Seatback Luggage: Space-saving Suitcase

Roadster Seatback Luggage: Space-saving Suitcase

When traveling, chances are you pack quite a bit of stuff in your suitcases. Obviously this takes up a lot of space in your trunk or backseats. Well, the Roadster Seatback Luggage is unique because it uses the space directly behind one of your car’s seats for extra storage.

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This Return of the Jedi Speeder Bike Started out as a Segway

This Return of the Jedi Speeder Bike Started out as a Segway

If you aren’t afraid of Ewoks trying to trip you up, you too can wear your Scout Trooper armor and ride on this cool real world speeder bike. This mod was added to a Segway personal mobility device by Youtuber Rodger Cleye.

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Edelkrone StandPLUS Reinvents the Tripod

Edelkrone StandPLUS Reinvents the Tripod

Using a tripod can mean getting the perfect picture, but the problem is getting it set up in time to take that shot. Somebody finally built a better tripod. The tripod of the future coming soon, and it eliminates knobs, buttons, and those awkward extending legs.

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Dark Souls – The Board Game: Prepare to Dice

Dark Souls – The Board Game: Prepare to Dice

Sun praisers will soon be able to slay bosses without their consoles or PCs, thanks to Steamforged Games’ upcoming officially licensed Dark Souls – The Board Game. Based on its prototype, it does a great job of capturing the Souls series’ combat in a turn-based and tabletop format.

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Star Trek Retro Play Set Will Beam You Back to the ’70s

Star Trek Retro Play Set Will Beam You Back to the ’70s

I was way too young to remember any of the ’70s. I am a ’80s child through and through. I do recall a babysitter having a beat up Star Trek play set in the toy box though.

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3D Printer Error Detection Mod: Axistential

3D Printer Error Detection Mod: Axistential

3D printers are prone to a problem called layer shifting, which is when the printer’s x- or y-axis stepper motor skips, causing layers from that point onward to be misaligned with the previously printed layers. That of course leads to a useless object and wasted time and materials.

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LEGO Star Wars Medical Frigate Will Give You a Hand

LEGO Star Wars Medical Frigate Will Give You a Hand

I’ve seen each of the original Star Wars trilogy films more times than I can count. Somehow, I don’t recall the Nebulon-B medical Frigate at all. Apparently, the ship showed up in The Empire Strikes Back and was the ship Luke was on after having his hand chopped off by Vader.

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This House-Shaped Tent Is Also Couch and a Bed

This House-Shaped Tent Is Also Couch and a Bed

The Campeggi Ca.Mia packs a bed into a compact bundle, allowing you to store it in a closet shelf for storage or pack it in a bag to take with you. However, it also inflates into couch with an integrated tent, so you can sleep in your own private space.

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Spyce Kitchen Fully Automated Restaurant: Cooking Master Bot

Spyce Kitchen Fully Automated Restaurant: Cooking Master Bot

We have robotic bartenders, why not robotic cooks as well? Actually, Spyce Kitchen is not just a cook but an entire restaurant that works on its own, from measuring ingredients to washing its pots. MIT mechanical and electrical engineering students Kale Rogers, Michael Farid, Braden Knight, and Luke Schlueter are the wizards behind the robo resto.

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Star Trek Shuttle Pinball Coffee Table: Where All Nouns Have Gone Before

Star Trek Shuttle Pinball Coffee Table: Where All Nouns Have Gone Before

You may remember Altar Furniture from its awesome R2-D2 pinball coffee table. Trekkies who are also pinball fans will be delighted to know that the company has something for them as well. The beautiful Shuttle Interactive Coffee Table is designed to look like Star Trek‘s shuttlecraft.

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Hoverboard Sitting Attachment Creates a Hover Kart

Hoverboard Sitting Attachment Creates a Hover Kart

You know those newfangled hoverboards that are prone to explode and are really not that great anyway? Looks like people are just getting started making stupid accessories for them. Take, for example this hoverboard sitting attachment that lets you ride across the beach sitting on your lawn chair throne like redneck royalty.

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Star Wars Droid Kitchen Containers: The Coffee You’re Looking for

Star Wars Droid Kitchen Containers: The Coffee You’re Looking for

In our house, my mom was a big fan of counter containers to hold stuff like flour or sugar. I’m not a repackaging kind of guy, but I would totally use these Star Wars droid kitchen containers.

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Chinese Construction Workers Have a Bulldozer Beatdown

Chinese Construction Workers Have a Bulldozer Beatdown

Ever since watching Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive and seeing murderous construction equipment trying to kill people, I’ve got a healthy fear of big construction equipment. Apparently, in China, no one gives a crap about tons of construction equipment having a riotous fight in the middle of a street.

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