Revenge of the Cherry Tomatoes is a new game for the Meggy Jr RGB: the open source 64-pixel video game kit. It is a sequel to Attack of the Cherry Tomatoes, the built-in game on Meggy Jr. It was written from scratch by Chris Brookfield. Click here: to watch the video.

I'm in the latest issue of Make Magazine dedicated to Remote Control Everything. What makes me even more happy is that I've been featured with Wired editor-in-chief  Chris Anderson (who is a big fan on UAV drones) and I-Wei "Crabfu"  creator of Steampunk radio controlled masterpieces!

Thank you Gareth!
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On Modellismo HobbyMedia I posted this interesting mashup of Arduino, Wii Nunchuck and an RC buggy from Tamiya.

 

via Make - Akihiro Uehara, a Japanese Lego hacker (blog.reinforce-lab.com), built an interface between a LEGO MINDSTORMS Alpha Rex and a Wii Balance Board. User can control the robot's leg motors speed and direction by changing the vector connecting user's center of balance and center of the board!

Phil Torrone, Senior Editor di MAKE magazine, during the DIY week (on Life Hacker) posted this photo of Jeri Elisworth fixing her Punk Shot arcade board released by Konami in 1990. She looks like the perfect girlfriend for any arcade game collector out there!! ^_^

Jeri Ellsworth is an American entrepreneur and self-taught computer chip designer. She is best known for, in 2004, creating a Commodore 64 emulator within a joystick, called Commodore 30-in-1 Direct to TV. The "computer in a joystick" could run 30 video games from the early 1980s, and was very popular during the 2004 Christmas season, at peak selling over 70,000 units in a single day via the QVC shopping channel. She is a pinball machine aficionado and owns over 60 full-sized pinball arcade games (via wiki).

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Last sunday I went to Tokyo MAKE Meeting 04 with Gianluca Martino: a member of the Arduino team. He has been super popular and he really appreciated the Japanese Arduino scene.
During the show Gakken displayed the prototype of the JAPANINO (Arduino clone). It will be released next spring in the Otona no Kagaku (in Japanese it means “Science toys for adults”) magazine series with a Persistence of Vision plastic Toy with color LEDs. The price tag will be less than 3500 yen (ca$35) and it will help a lot of people to get into the “Makers” scene. I’m doing consulting for Gakken on this project so I can not reveal all details but this release will definitely make the Japanese Arduino scene the biggest in the World as in a couple of months the magazine will probably sell what the original Arduino sold worldwide in the last years...

NOTE: Arduino team is not officially involved in this project but should be featured in the magazine.

(via Mark Frauenfelder) Make blog, posted a great  guide to Guide to chemistry sets and books. I always been obsessed with these kits and 15 years ago I made a cover of Ultraman playing with a chemistry set for a techno zine I edited for the Italian cult techno label ACV records. When I'm back to my secret base in Rome I should scan it and post! Anyway, after all these years, I still wait for a chemistry set Erowid edition!
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