Lately my family has been going to the Neon Retro video game arcade in Pasadena, CA. They have a bunch of very nicely restored arcade games. It costs $10 a hour and all the games are set to free play. I just found out about this Pac-Man Connect-and-Play. — Read the rest
Remember that video showing the overwhelming glee of the woman enjoying her new Chewbacca mask? Our hyper talented maker pal John Park recorded this instructional video on hacking the Chewbacca Electronic Mask so you can upload any sounds you want, including the crazed laughter of the woman in that wonderful video! — Read the rest
John Park is my old friend. He's an amazing maker of things, like this giant-size Arduino board, and equally huge, clear handcuffs (to show how they work and learn how to escape from them). John was the host of Make: Television, and worked as a researcher at Disney for many years. — Read the rest
Some special elements are coming together in these final days leading up to the event that are just-- well, wonderful. And you should not miss them.
I've taken a couple of lockpicking workshops. It was supremely rewarding when I successfully opened a lock using lockpicking tools. Here's a transparent padlock that shows you how the internal components work, making it easier to learn how to pick locks. — Read the rest
John Park says: "I built a remotely-triggered pneumatic air cannon to shoot myself in the face with ice cold water."
— Read the restArtists from across The Walt Disney Company including Lucasfilm, Industrial Light and Magic, Marvel and Pixar—as well as select street artists chosen by Neff and celebrity Star Wars fans –all come together to create individualized interpretations of the iconic stormtrooper helmet in celebration of the global fan holiday, Star Wars Day or "May the 4th be with you."
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford — who has steadfastly refused to attend the city's massive, economically vital and glorious Pride parade — has pitched a tantrum over the decision to fly a rainbow flag from the auxiliary flagpole at City Hall. The flag was raised in solidarity with LGBT activists and athletes in a project led by Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam at the request of Pride House TO. — Read the rest
Marilyn sez, "With all this brouhaha about Secret Service agents misbehaving in Cartagena, I remembered this story in Smithsonian magazine two years ago about the unreliable presidential bodyguard who was supposed to be protecting Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theater the night he got shot. — Read the rest
[Video Link] 17-year-old Anika Brandsma combined a Lego Mindstorms NXT set with a Lego Friends Olivia's Inventor's Workshop set to make this cool robot lab. John Park has more on the MAKE blog.
To bring Olivia's enviable robotics workshop to life, Anika added motors, sensors, and the micro controller brain from a Mindstorms NXT set. — Read the rest
Boing Boing pal Mike Outmesguine shares this excellent video of his son Mikey and his classmates putting on a demonstration for his school. Mike is a wireless technology expert and a fun-loving explorer of DIY-hacker-maker culture, and his son Mikey appears to be following in his father's footsteps. — Read the rest
(Read a PDF with the first three chapters of Ready Player One.)
It seems like every decade or so a science fiction novel comes along that sends a lightning bolt through my nervous system: Philip Jose Farmer's To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971). — Read the rest
Make: television host and espresso maven John Edgar Park checks in to give us a tour of his siphon brew apparatus, among other eccentric tools of the brew.
Becky Stern says:
— Read the restMake: Live airs tonight! Don't miss our brewing episode where guests Diane Gilleland and John Park show us how to roast and brew coffee, DIY style.
Last weekend I took my daughter Jane and her friend Anna to a workshop in Los Angeles to teach them how to break into cars, get out of a lock car trunk, and hotwire a car.
The workshop was part of Machine Project's "Good People Doing Bad Things" curriculum and was conducted by Tom Jennings (the creator of FidoNet, the founder of one of the first Internet service providers, and the founder and publisher of the fanzine Homocore) and Jason Torchinsky (an artist, author, and Boing Boing guest blogger). — Read the rest
Yesterday I posted that awful Boo Berry illustration with the weird lip skin flap. As John Park said: It probably "started as a Fred Flintstone-style pushed upper lip that someone had no clue about as they did the pseudo 3D version." — Read the rest
My friend John Park is on business in India, and has started a posterous blog as a photo journal. I like this photo he took of a tissue box with helpful usage tips:
• Handkerchief
• Make up remover
• Car steering wiper
• Spects cleaner
• And for what-not
John Park of MAKE says: "Niklas Roy cannot be contained! He's built a curtain in his shop window that uses machine vision and fast linear positioning to block the view of nosy onlookers."
— Read the restMy workshop is located in an old storefront with a big window facing towards the street.
My friend John Park wrote a tutorial on how to quickly make a hollowed-out book with an oscillating cutter.
Make: Online has a new section called Maker Pro, which focuses on individuals and small groups who have turned their enthusiasm for making into a business. Our most recent interview is with David and Christiane Erwin of Crestview Doors. John Park, who purchased a door from them a couple of years ago (I've seen it and it is beautiful), conducted the interview. — Read the rest
John Park says: "Some woman had an old Nintendo and a few random games for sale. Turns out one of them was a super rare collectors dream game, so it went for around $13,000!"
— Read the restUp for auction is an original Nintendo NES gaming system with 1 hand control.
