Author: Jack Slater
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Tim Angus’ Unique Electric Guitar
The first time I ever saw a 3D printer in-person was at a robotics conference for software developers in Florida. That thing printed out a tiny little model of an intricate water jug and I was in awe. Imagine the look on my face when I woke up this morning and saw that ioquake3 developer…
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Portable Frustration With Bennett Foddy
I’ve already written about how much I love Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, but I hadn’t written about the iOS version which has gotten much better over time and today there is an Android version on Google’s app store if you’d like to learn to master your frustration on a portable device. They’re both $5…
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Campo Santo Got Valvo’d
I love adventure games. Well, I love modern adventure games. They come in all shapes and sizes, but there’s a type that’s a sub-genre of the Walking Simulator style of adventure in which you get your narrative-focused Gone Home’s and your Tacoma’s and the occasional Firewatch. The news is that the developer of Firewatch, Campo…
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Today in Rube Goldberg Machines
A gif of this cake serving Rube Goldberg machine has been going around social media and that utterly fascinating gif didn’t even include all of the action for this awesome machine from ex-New Zealander and current New Yorker Joseph Herscher of the Joseph’s Machines project.
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That C64 Mini
The miniaturizing nostalgia shrink ray is sprayed at everything now: Cars; entertainment systems both super and conventional Nintendo; iPads; arcade cabinets… There’s also now a The C64 Mini, not a Commodore 64 Mini or Classic Edition, but strictly The C64 Mini. Apparently they couldn’t get the name Commodore 64. This miniature device that definitely isn’t a Commodore 64 also isn’t out…