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Hello there, here are your daily updates from the MAKE blog - 2008/12/08. NoKES - Nintendo keyless entry system Car with propeller Best of CRAFT Cereal box spectrometer MAKE Flickr pool weekly roundup Finding good trash Krampus for Christmas Best of GeekDad - Carboard playhouses, podcast with Adam Sessler and more! Balloon tank iPhone projector graffiti More Recent Articles NoKES - Nintendo keyless entry system Instructables user action_owl created this fun keyless entry system using a classic NES, an Arduino, Processing, and a spare CD-ROM. Once activated NoKES (NintendO Keyless Entry System) will be blinking letting you know that it is alert and keeping guard. Once the Start button is pressed on the controller, the arduino starts recording what buttons are pressed, converts them into a number and adds them together. When you press Start + Select the Arduino compares that number to the combination that you have set. If you enter an Incorrect combination the arduino activates an attached circuit and plays a sound. It then sends a serial signal to processing and snaps a picture with an attached Webcam (so if someone is messing with your lock you have a picture of them). If you enter a correct combination the arduino sends a signal to the cd-rom to eject and thus will lock or unlock the door. Upon a correct combination a signal is also sent to processing which plays a sound. Obviously, this one is a prototype. For anything besides securing your bedroom from nosey siblings, you'd probably want a beefier lock, and the software should check the specific combination instead of summing the keys. With a few tweaks, though, this would be a fun addition to the garage, dorm room, or a boring office space. Raise your hand if you're thinking of the Contra code right now. Nintendo Keyless Entry System (NoKES) [via zombie_funk] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arduino | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Car with propeller Dear Big 3, there is good news and bad news - the good news is, you're getting a bail out - the bad news you can only make propellor cars from now on... Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Modern Mechanix | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Best of CRAFT Here are some of my favorite posts this week from the Craft: Blog: Embroidered Platters From Artist Lynette Andreasen Knitted Armchair Slipcover Tatted Mask Turkey Window Display Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Crafts | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Cereal box spectrometer We've covered this simple kitchen-table science project before: how to make a spectrometer from a cereal box and a CD. Here, PopSci offers a 5-minute video on the project. More: A CD - cereal box spectrometer Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Science | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • MAKE Flickr pool weekly roundup From the MAKE: Flickr pool Letterpress process in pictures [above, bottom-right] Machine Collective: physical interface prototype [above, bottom-left] 64-button matrix of elegance [above, top-right] Nifty junkbots from Colombia [above, top-left] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Photography | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Finding good trash Thanks to Star Simpson (famous for exposing Boston Airport's absurdity) for this tip on a new wiki covering an important topic: where to find good trash. Trashwiki is still very new and sparsely populated, but it's a start. Please comment with any other links you have to trash- (aka treasure-) locating resources. You too will be this happy when you find a bag of edible donuts in the garbage:) Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Green | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Krampus for Christmas Macula offers a downloadable papercraft of Krampus, a creepy companion of Saint Nicholas. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Holiday projects | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Best of GeekDad - Carboard playhouses, podcast with Adam Sessler and more! Cardboard Playhouse is a Wonderful, Green Holiday Gift for Younger Kids This Little Piggy's Playhouse, designed by an architect for their kid, is an all-cardboard playhouse, made in the USA from 100% recyclable materials. They come in regular cardboard brown, or white - all the better for coloring! And, I have to say, compared to similar items we've seen elsewhere, it's pretty reasonably priced. 10 Christmas Songs I'm Already Sick Of (and 10 Geeky Alternatives) We are scarcely into the month of December, and I am already dreadfully tired of classic Christmas music and, for that matter, many of its more contemporary alternatives. Don't get me wrong, I've got Christmas Spirit™ to spare, but the relentless audio assault of this holiday-themed musical fare has long since crossed the threshold from seasonally appropriate and into the realm of the obnoxious. GeekDad Holiday Gift Guide #5: Toys for Dads & Kids to Share A long-winded title but it points out a truism: the best thing about being a geek are the toys, and the best thing about being a GeekDad is playing with your kids with those toys. The GeekDads Episode 33: The Dragon Really is a Duck The GeekDads talk about videogames for the whole family with X-Play host Adam Sessler. Coming Soon: The Twelve Days of Geekmas Starting December 12th, we at GeekDad will be celebrating the 12 Days of Geekmas (or 12DOG, for those in the know). We will be taking a look back over the amazing year we've had on GeekDad, and giving away some pretty awesome stuff, including special items from Wil Wheaton, ThinkGeek, Arts & Entertainment Television, and many of our HipTrax bands. So activate the nostalgia circuit, and stay tuned! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Kids | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • Balloon tank Balloon tank via NOTCOT. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • iPhone projector graffiti The Zeptotools blog posted this demo of an iPhone application they are hoping to release. I haven't used the application or seen it outside of this video, but I like the idea of adding whiteboard features to the iPhone by sending screen data to a nearby laptop with an attached projector. What would really be something is if someone extended this idea to allow multiple iPhones to draw collaboratively to a single projector screen. Zeptotools developers blog Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in iPhone | Digg this! • Email to a friend • Related • • More Recent Articles MAKE Project Tin button box Holiday Event: Unsilent Night Rover AA1: Arduino Acer robot Human typewriter project Green Holiday Crafts - CRAFT Video Podcast Stop by the Maker Shed store and check out THE place for open source hardware, Arduino & Arduino accessories, electronic kits, science kits, smart stuff for kids, back issues of MAKE & CRAFT, box sets, books, robots, kits from Japan and more.

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