I built a tool to help fellow railfans find the new open-gangway trains that are now live on the C and G lines. It uses a lil custom hardware beacon to make up for the lack of this data in the official subway tracker API. Check it out at traintrack.now or read more at thingswemake.com!
March 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I built a tool to help fellow railfans find the new open-gangway trains that are now live on the C and G lines. It uses a lil custom hardware beacon to make up for the lack of this data in the official subway tracker API. Check it out at traintrack.now or read more at thingswemake.com!
Lil weekend dial-a-song project: a rotary phone dialer Spotify interface. Plays Spotify recs via the handset’s speaker based on the numbers you dial. In this clip, 1999 > 59th St Bridge Song > 867-5309!
January 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Lil weekend dial-a-song project: a rotary phone dialer Spotify interface. Plays Spotify recs via the handset’s speaker based on the numbers you dial. In this clip, 1999 > 59th St Bridge Song > 867-5309!
The TikTok ban just wasn’t a poison pill in 2019/2020 when TT was new/ascendant. Today it’s embedded in our lives in a materially different way. Law moves so much slower than tech! It could’ve gone out with a whimper rather than a bang - imagine if we were talking about Clubhouse instead!
January 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The TikTok ban just wasn’t a poison pill in 2019/2020 when TT was new/ascendant. Today it’s embedded in our lives in a materially different way. Law moves so much slower than tech! It could’ve gone out with a whimper rather than a bang - imagine if we were talking about Clubhouse instead!
I was asked if you had to blow on it to turn it off and on again which led me to a little feature addition: blow into the NES cartridge to toggle a secret Game Boy mode easter egg, with hundreds of classic GB roms represented. ‘Cause breath is the Konami code of the face.
November 27, 2024 at 3:09 AM
I was asked if you had to blow on it to turn it off and on again which led me to a little feature addition: blow into the NES cartridge to toggle a secret Game Boy mode easter egg, with hundreds of classic GB roms represented. ‘Cause breath is the Konami code of the face.
Meet the NinTARDIS: a fully-functional NES stuffed into an NES game cartridge. It has ~600 NES ROMs, capacitive touchscreen controls, a speaker, haptic feedback, and a rechargeable lipoly battery. Read more at thingswemake.com/now-youre-playing-with-power/
November 23, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Meet the NinTARDIS: a fully-functional NES stuffed into an NES game cartridge. It has ~600 NES ROMs, capacitive touchscreen controls, a speaker, haptic feedback, and a rechargeable lipoly battery. Read more at thingswemake.com/now-youre-playing-with-power/
Just learned that there’s a Three Stooges game for the NES and this is how it opens. 🔊
November 21, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Just learned that there’s a Three Stooges game for the NES and this is how it opens. 🔊
The NES-in-a-cartridge is nearly done! Just a few more Retropie tweaks…
November 19, 2024 at 10:54 AM
The NES-in-a-cartridge is nearly done! Just a few more Retropie tweaks…
Okay I know laser-cutting ABS plastic is bad news, but the results are just so compelling…
November 17, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Okay I know laser-cutting ABS plastic is bad news, but the results are just so compelling…
Did Sweeney Todd really deal the barber business such bad PR?
November 17, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Did Sweeney Todd really deal the barber business such bad PR?
Been working on stuffing a functional NES into an o.g. NES game cartridge. 600 games, fully portable, and touchscreen-controlled!
November 16, 2024 at 5:00 AM
Been working on stuffing a functional NES into an o.g. NES game cartridge. 600 games, fully portable, and touchscreen-controlled!