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Raspberry Pi MAME cabinet brings the arcade to your tiny fingertips

, Nov 26th 2012 Discuss [1]

The $35 Raspberry Pi hobby board is one of the most innovative pieces of circuitry that we've seen yet. It's so simple and cheap, yet it leads to thousands of hackers and modders cooking up their own concoctions of circuitry brilliance. One modder in particular, Sprite_tm, recently made a pocket-size MAME cabinet out of a Raspberry Pi and a few other pieces of circuitry. Read The Full Story

Beta sign-up for The Witcher 2 modding tools now live

, Aug 17th 2012 Discuss [2]

Ask any PC gamer what makes the platform so great, and (after bragging about the hardware in their rig) mods are bound to come up at one point or another. After the immense success of The Witcher 2, CD Projekt Red is ready to open the game to modders, giving players the opportunity to create their own adventures set within the Witcher universe. It's an exciting prospect to be sure, and if you're interested in CDP's REDKit, you may be pleased to know that you can now sign-up for the beta. Read The Full Story

ArmA 2 mod DayZ getting standalone release

, Aug 7th 2012 Discuss [3]

If you've played military shooter ArmA 2, chances are you've heard of DayZ, a mod that turns the game into a multiplayer open world zombie-fest where no one is to be trusted as you struggle to survive. The mod is brilliant, if not a little rough around the edges in this early stage, and perhaps that's why ArmA 2 developer Bohemia Interactive has decided to turn it into a full release. DayZ creator Dean "Rocket" Hall announced the game today, saying that he will become project lead with Bohemia Interactive acting as publisher. Read The Full Story

Raspberry Pi gets a Heck of a nice keyboard

, Jul 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

We talked a lot about the Raspberry Pi since little device first debuted. It's a cheap little computer designed to run a free operating system making it ideal for tinkering and cobbling together your own HTPC for the living room. Modder Ben Heck has constructed a very cool project using a $35 Raspberry Pi to create what looks like a wooden Commodore 64. Read The Full Story

Twitter Fuelband mashup tracks your social fitness

, May 25th 2012 Discuss [0]

Some people have different ways to measure the success of their Twitter accounts, like retweets or number of followers, but how about boiling down all that activity into one easy to understand number? Stinkdigital had an interesting idea and put it to the test, by taking a Nike Fuelband, modifying it, and taking advantage of the generated Fuelband score to measure Twitter activity. Read The Full Story

Metro UI theme for Galaxy Tab 10.1 surfaces

, Mar 29th 2012 Discuss [5]

When we ran across this new Metro UI theme for the Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet, we couldn't decide if Android users would be excited or outraged. I suspect there'll be a bit of both. If you're one of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 users who happens to appreciate the style of Microsoft's Metro UI theme, you can now install the theme to your Android tablet. Read The Full Story

Pimp My Ride: iPad Edition

, Mar 20th 2012 Discuss [8]

If you’re buying a car in this day and age, you can easily get GPS and satellite navigation included on board, and if not, there are always third party options. But what about using one of those new fangled iPads to do those jobs plus act as a radio to boot? SoundMan Car Audio, a car installation service in Southern California, set out to mod an iPad into a car. Read The Full Story

Roads? The Back to the Future drone doesn’t need roads

, Mar 12th 2012 Discuss [0]

The AR.Drone is a nifty piece of kit, and as we saw the other day, there are some interesting and unique possibilities in how to control it. Drones also figure prominently into law enforcement, but our only complaint is that they all look a bit boring. If only someone came along and spruced up the exterior to be a little bit more entertaining. Read The Full Story

CyanogenMod Android team ask for community cash support

, Feb 18th 2012 Discuss [8]

You won't see this sentence very often: CyanogenMod is asking for money. As you may well know, the Android community uses the modification to Android known as CyanogenMod more than any other custom ROM, hands down. And today they're asking that you help them out with their otherwise free service by donating some cash to help support the purchase of "a couple of solid, stable Xeon-class servers with large amounts of RAM and fast disks." They're currently using PayPal, which is unfortunate for the apparent mobs of users boycotting the service at the moment (there's a lot of overlap with the modding community) but you've got other options as well. Read The Full Story

Bethesda brings Skyrim Creation Kit to PC

, Feb 6th 2012 Discuss [24]

If you're like any good RPG fan, you've been playing the latest Elder Scrolls title, the fifth installment known simply as "Skyrim," for months on end. And you're probably also not even close to being done with it. The magic and wonder of the ever-vast role-playing masterpiece is about to get even more interesting, as Besthesda is making user-generated content easy to make, find, and download. This is one of the last big reasons to remain a PC gamer. Read The Full Story

Skyrim gets My Little Pony mod

, Jan 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

Skyrim has been one of the most popular games out there on the PC and game consoles since it launched late in 2011. The game has some of the best graphics and deepest game play of any title on the market. The popularity of the game also makes it ripe for mods and one of those mods replaces the dragons in the game with something more sinister - My Little Pony. Read The Full Story

SparkFun Electric Sheep lets Android fans make their own accessories

, Nov 16th 2011 Discuss [2]

One of the things that most people like so much about Android is that the OS is very open. One of the things that you can take advantage of on the Android platform is the open accessory protocol. A company called SparkFun Electronics has a new USB device called Electric Sheep that takes advantage of that open accessory protocol. Read The Full Story
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