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How to Build Your Own 12-Game Mini Arcade Machine [DIY]
Feb 8th
When I first saw this tiny arcade back in September, it was love at first byte. And now that there’s an instructional video, I can build one of my very own. It looks so easy in fast forward!
The ingredients are easy enough to come by: a plug and play system mounted to a wooden case, a LCD screen Read more ...
Pac-Man Watch Woka-Woka-Wokas Every Second of Your Life [Watches]
Dec 4th
I like the
Pac-Man watch as much as the Pac-Man Theme Song: “Paaaac-Man, run from the ghost! Paaaac-Man, he eats dots on toast! Paaaaaaaaac-Man, he’d rather have lamb roast!” That’s the Pac-Man Theme song. In my head it is, ok?
There are only 500 of these at $129 each. Some Read more ...
Waze Turn-By-Turn App Lets You Play Pac-Man With Your Car [IPhone Apps]
Nov 25th
Free, crowd-sourced turn-by-turn app Waze might not navigate quite as well as the Navigons and Telenavs of the world, but it’s got one killer feature that they don’t: cherries, to chomp with your car.
The cherries (and various other icons) are part of Waze’s new “Road Goodies” program, which essentially turns the navigation service—which has, by most counts, gotten a lot better over the pat few months—into a simple point-gathering game. The point of these points? Well, the treasures are places wherever there are gaps in Waze’s map data:
For instance, if there’s an area Read more ...
Can Art Reveals Pac-Man’s Gruesome Reality [Pacman]
Nov 14th
All this time you thought Pac-Man was a harmless game. This artist’s rendering, built entirely in tin cans, shows you the terrifying reality 8-bit graphics couldn’t.
Besides being an impressive structure, this can memorial reminds us of the horror Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde have faced daily for almost 30 years. Hopefully the day will come when they can stop running. [ Walyou]
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Video: Hacked Roombas Used to Play Pac-Man, Finally! [Roomba]
Nov 9th
It was only a matter of time, right? Check out this setup where a laptop player controls “Pac-Man” while being chased by robo-vacuum ghosts. And get this: it’s actually a demo of their unmanned aerial software that guides airborne vehicles.
That’s why the red tape marking the maze is really only there for the video. The player sees a virtual representation on screen, and the ghost roombas use internal odometry with a positioning system to find their way around, and avoid each other.
Now they just need those Read more ...
