| Visualized: industrial vending machines are a modder's best friend Aug 6th 2012, 23:44  The perfect compliment to a massive hackerspace like Massachusetts's Artisan's Asylum? An industrial vending machine stocked with all the necessities for your average modder. Fastenal specializes in business industrial vending machines, stocking up units with things like office and first aid supplies. The company also provides cutting tools and materials for welders and metal fabricators, making it a bit of a godsend for hackerspace communities, where venturing out to a hardware store often means an annoying interruption of a project's workflow -- or, as a woman at the space told us: a lot of people order takeout because they don't want leave when they're working, so it sort of makes sense that the space would offering up such a solution. Members swipe their cards, applying the charges to their membership accounts. The thing stocks welding gloves, dust masks, screw drivers, tape measures, various adhesives and multi-tools, so modders never have to leave to safety of their hackerspace again. Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Visualized: industrial vending machines are a modder's best friend originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | Amazon launches its own game studio, goes social with Living Classics on Facebook Aug 6th 2012, 22:40  Amazon is committing itself to gaming much more seriously than providing a storefront: it just launched its own game development house. The simply titled Amazon Game Studios is starting out gently by producing a Facebook hidden object game, Living Classics, that lets the socially inclined dig around through scenes from well-known literature -- what else would you expect from the Kindle's creator? While the free, me-too game isn't going to give Microsoft or Sony any frights just yet, the company has the ambition of making "innovative, fun and well-crafted" titles. Amazon is actively recruiting more help for the studio as we write, so we'd expect more grandiose work before too long. Continue reading Amazon launches its own game studio, goes social with Living Classics on Facebook Filed under: Gaming, Internet Amazon launches its own game studio, goes social with Living Classics on Facebook originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  Joystiq |  Living Classics (Facebook), Amazon Game Studios | Email this | Comments | | Modder conjoins two N64 controllers for dual-analog play in Star Wars Ep. 1 Racer, Goldeneye Aug 6th 2012, 22:16  We've seen a fair share of controller mods over the years, but a dual-analog Nintendo 64 pad intended for Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer? That's certainly a simpler concept that can apparently turn out to be quite intriguing -- and functional. As the story goes, a friend of a modder named Clarky is an avid player of the sci-fi title, especially a hidden mode that allows users to individually command both the left and right engines of their pod-racer using the joysticks of two controllers. To make the control scheme less fiddly, Clarky essentially chopped off the D-Pad section of one and and the action button section on another to join the two as one. The final result is impressive as well -- we'd be hard-pressed not to believe it's some rare prototype from the Nintendo labs at first glance. The unit also functions with the classic shooter, Goldeneye 64, as well since the game supports a similar dual-analog mode. Notably, the gamepad plugs in with two cords, so it's unlikely you'd be able to reap its full benefits on most of the system's games. You'll find a video of the controller in action below, and a full build log at the source link. Now, if only we could get our 4MB graphics Expansion Pack to work with the titles as well. Continue reading Modder conjoins two N64 controllers for dual-analog play in Star Wars Ep. 1 Racer, Goldeneye Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals Modder conjoins two N64 controllers for dual-analog play in Star Wars Ep. 1 Racer, Goldeneye originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Kotaku | clarky2010 (YouTube), Made By Bacteria (forums) | Email this | Comments | |
