From the “yeah, that’s kinda kewl” department: Simply charge the glow brick up in sunlight or via a lightbulb, take it into a dark room and leave it glowing in darkness - it’ll work for up to about 3 hours.
Read more about it at www.nigelsecostore.com.
I was working on a solving a Rubik’s cube a few days ago. I was never a speed-solver, but way back when Rubik’s Cubes were popular, I had a couple and learned how to solve them. Unfortunately, I had forgotten a crucial move or two, and had to look it up. I […]
This looks like a fun project: Controlling LED Arrays on TCP/IP Networks. The fun part, though, is the tri-color LED matrix and controller board.
Looks like there hasn’t been any new content in awhile, but here’s yet another site with textures: amazingtextures.com.
This is uberkewl — there is a web-based tool for making VMs for the free VMWare Player.
Go download and install the free VMware Player: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
Go here and follow the directions: http://www.easyvmx.com/
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Profit!
I found a great collection of 3D API specs and data formats: Paul Bourke - Data Formats. Looks good, and it’s info I need.
Found on digg: Programming Fonts. I’ve been a Lucida Console dude for a long time, but I’m willing to take Dina and Proggy out for a spin.
I’m clearing out some bookmark tabs to a more permanent home. Here are two good texture resources:
textures.forrest.cz
www.texturebin.com
Here are some really nifty gizmos for playing with flickr: fd’s Flickr Toys.
This looks kewl: Artie: “Artie is a service that utilizes Amazon.com’s public database of images to retrieve any missing cover art for your iTunes library.”
This is kewl. It wraps the content from digg.com in an iframe in such a way that one can view it on the Sony PSP. Have a look at the results: http://racedude.buckdog.sourcecodemini.net/digg/index.html.
Well, it’s 2006 already, but this is a good list of the 5 Best Freeware Games of 2005. I’ve tried Mono, and it’s kewl.
I can’t run it (I run Win2K), but this looks kewl: slickr a screensaver that uses content from flickr.
Here’s the best reference I’ve yet found for the Wavefront .obj file format: http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~burkardt/data/obj/obj_format.txt.
I’ve got a back-burner project that needs to import and export to this format.
Screenshots of this in-development game at Ambrosia Software look awesome: Sketchfighter.