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Idea Vending Machine  The Idea Vending Machine gives you more than just ideas! For just 50¢ you get (1) idea, a map if travel is involved, (1) toy, (1) quarter, and (1) lucky penny. Sounds like a bargain to me! If you are wondering why you get a quarter back? Well, the vending machine will only work if [...] [..] |
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Vending machine provides release for anger  This “Passive Aggressive Vending Machine” by artist Yarisa Kublitz is filled with fine China. When someone puts in a coin, and selects an object, the piece will fall to the bottom, shattering into a million tiny pieces. The artist contends that this act will make you feel better, although we here at Make think it [...] [..] |
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| Japanese Schoolgirl Watch: Tobacco Vending Machines Block Underage Smokers If you live in Japan, have a nicotine fix and want to purchase ciggies from a vending machine, be able to prove you’re 20 by producing your age-verification card. These integrated circuit-embedded cards must be scanned at said machines prior to the dispensing of your choice cancer sticks.
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| TimeMachineEditor 1.3 If you’ve ever wanted to change Time Machine’s schedule, Time Software's TimeMachineEditor lets you do just that. You can tweak the interval so that Time Machine backs up every, say, four hours, or you can choose to have Time Machine back up once a day, once a week, or once a month. MacWorld [..] |
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Applause machine  Dug North writes in -
When the you push the button, The Applause Machine claps it’s hands for you. The Applause Machine is a motorized automaton designed by Martin Smith that will be widely available in September of 2008. The piece is constructed of coated steel, brass, Walnut, plastic and a small motor. It measures about [...] [..] |
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| Lego NXT robot drums Yes, this is another drum machine, but I couldn’t help myself. This one listens and repeats the rhythm that the user plays. The whole thing is made from a Lego NXT and what appears to be Lollypops for mallets?
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| Arduino and Nunchuck controlled espresso Tim Hirzel hacked his espresso machine to give it oodles more features and made it controllable with a Wii Nunchuck via Arduino. Makes me wonder how many test brews were required, and if he drank all of them during construction.
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| Arduino drum machine This is a really nice drum machine that utilizes DIP switches to control the drum beats. Those types of switches are hard to manipulate, but I imagine you could easily replace them with an easier to use 2 or 3 position toggle switch.
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The Political Machine returns for '08 election  Filed under: PC, Strategy
Stardock's political strategy game returns for this year's election with The Political Machine 2008. The full retail product puts players in charge of a national campaign for President of [..] |
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| US war robots in Iraq ‘turned guns’ on fleshy comrades Kill-droid rebellion thwarted… this time
Ground-crawling US war robots armed with machine guns, deployed to fight in Iraq last year, reportedly turned on their fleshy masters almost at once. The rebellious machine warriors have been retired from combat pending upgrades.
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DIY analog tape delay machine  From the Make: Flickr Pool:
V2 of my Tape Delay Machine uses two walkman type tape players. One is a Realistic Stereo Mate and the other is a Memorex XB.
Both players have a similar footprint, so I arranged them side by side and connected them together.
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National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest 2008  Today I attended the annual National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest finals at Purdue University. This year the task was to make a hamburger in no less than 20 steps, and the Purdue Armory was full of great, laboriously contrived burger-making machines.
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| Photos fool cigarette age-verification software Whoops…
A Japanese reporter has used family photos and magazine cut-outs to fool face-recognition software currently used in some of the country’s cigarette vending machines into selling him smokes.
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