All bow your heads in reverence to the Ponginator. This bad boy is a performance robot, mounted to the end of a 3 story tall crane. He makes all kinds of noises, flashes all kinds of lights, and shoots ping pong balls at 170 miles an hour. This thing looks like it would be so much fun to play with. ...

It’s hard to write the first line of this, because in this case any reference to Kraftwerk’s “Pocket Calculator� is wildly redundant. This is a calculator. He is the operator. This is a real, working HP48 graphing calculator playing MIDI events. You can go, like, graph stuff with it afterwar...

Filed under: peripherals hacks [Jeff] has been playing around with Parallax's Propeller chip. He's used it to adapt an NES controller to the to the Commodore 64. In this latest iteration though, he's added a Memsic 2125 dual axis accelerometer to the end of a whiffle ball bat and used that to provid...