I’m a sucker for Tetris and an even bigger sucker for stop-motion. So when I saw a Tetris stop-motion video floating around, I simply couldn’t cope any more and my head exploded.
It’s pretty basic, but also pretty cool. We blogged early on about some build-your-own Tetris shelving, based on the amazing Brave Space Design for those not comfortable with the high block cost.
Click for the YouTube video.
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From the Build Your Own Arcade Controls forum comes this amazing miniature piece from forum member, Bender (as in the robot from Futurama!). If you’re looking to build an arcade machine yourself, this is a great place for information with some really helpful forum members. surface tension is also members of the boards.
There’s no stone left unturned with this one. It’s 1/8 scale (8.25″ tall), which apparently equates to 512 times smaller than the full-size cabinet. It is fully functional, using a GP2X Wiz hardware and OLED display. The marquee is also illuminated! The attention to detail is really quite something.
Tim over at JC&TIM has been creative with some used road signs. These would look great in the right pad, though I’m not sure what that would be!
On the subject of coffee tables, did you know about the surface tension arcade coffee table?!
Check out some of the stuff on their index page. Love the Southwest Airlines ad!
Road sign furniture :: Geekologie
The online store Spinning Hat have a great retro cake mould up for sale, inspired by the classic Space Invaders. By ‘inspired’, I mean it’s not an authorised product, so contains an extra pixel here and there. Looks great though and I could really go for some of that cream-filled invader cake right now.
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Remember the giant SNES controller coffee table?
Well someone has gone a large step further with the NES coffee table complete with oversized and functional controller stored in the cart bay.
“DAYTONAAAAA” Albeit a fairly old game, someone from the Retrovicio forums has built a miniature Daytona cabinet. All the controls are jammed on there too… gear stick, wheel and those illuminated square buttons. The wheel is actually a radio-control remote. Though what it’s doing on the bed is anyone’s guess…
William Stranger is no stranger to working with salvaged or sustainable timber. The wood from this superb coffee table was actually salvaged from a bowling alley from what I gather.
Simple, but very effective. I like.
I’m a bit late writing about this one, but it still deserves a post. I wrote about the work-of-art that was the Atari 2600 handheld some time ago. Well the latest creation is the C64 laptop…
It does its 1541 drive emulation using an SD card so you can drop stuff on it from the pc, then slip it in the C64.
It’s a working system, not just pretty. There’s a whole heap on information on benheck.com. Awesome work.