Nanocade: Netbook Friendly MAME Cabinet
If you have $349 and a spare netbook or mini-ITX motherboard laying around you too can have your very own mini arcade cabinet. The Nanocade is a kit being offered by designer Rasmus Sorensen. It enables you to use a spare netbook with a 10-inch display as a small tabletop MAME cabinet. With a sweet [...]
DIY: Mini MAME Cabinet
We have showed you in the past how you can build your own MAME arcade cabinet, but if you are lacking space for a monster arcade machine this mini MAME cabinet would be perfect for you. Modder Ed had an old netbook lying around and decided to slap this together as a Christmas gift for [...]
Mini Arcade Machine
Master modder Marcelo Souza of São Paulo, Brazil has built one cool tabletop arcade machine emulator. This isn’t your average mame cabinet. Marcelo has added custom optical sensors to catch coin inserts and built the unit off of a Arduino board. Check out the video of the unit in action. If you know how to [...]
Evo “Smart Colsole” Is Linux Based
When was the last time you say a gaming console released that didn’t come from one of the big three? A while a bet. So you might be happy to know that Envizions Computer Entertainment will be releasing the Evo “Smart Console”. The interesting spin on this new console is that it’s nothing more than [...]
Mamebook – Macbook Arcade Cabinet
Got an old Macbook laying around? Why not make your very own cocktail arcade cabinet with it. Crafty hacker Frederic Sebton decided to do something with the broken Macbook he had laying around. He crammed the internals into an Ikea Ramvik sideboard and with a little finessing and hacking he came up with this great [...]
Solar Powered NES, Genesis & Gameboy Emulator
I’m a huge old school gamer. NES, MAME, Super Nintendo, Gameboy, you name it (I’m really showing my age here), so much so that I must have gig’s of roms (all legal of course) and emulators on every machine that I own. Well, this portable media player is right up my alley. The EM-SOL2GIG is [...]
Old iPod, New Tricks
Got an old iPod laying around? Now that you have your new iPod touch or iPhone not quite sure what to do with your old unit? Hack it and bring it some new life of course. The TechEBlog has a great article with some great “re-uses” for your old iPod. From building your very own [...]
USB Missle Launcher
This isn’t exactly what I’d call a very productive gadget, but it sure can be some fun. The USB Missile Launcher has a 5 meter range and an armament of three missiles so you’re going to have to take careful aim when pointing it at your co-workers. The really cool part of it all is [...]
MAME On The iPhone
You all knew that it was bound to happen. A developer using the alias Kaisersoze has successfully ported an initial build of the arcade emulator MAME to run on the iPhone. As is still the case with all homebrew stuff for the iPhone (Apple, will you wake up already!) you’ll have to do some hacking [...]
