Monthly Archives: May, 2008
Rebar Knife
I made this a while ago, but never actually got around to posting it. I was trying to make a “sword” out of a continuous piece of rebar, but the handle ended up melting off in the fire. Oops. So, I flattened the bottom out and punched some holes through with a pointy steel rod, [...]
Mushroom Screws?
Like some sort of stoner, I was playing with a screw sitting on my desk when it occurred to me that they sort of look like mushrooms! I’m sure I’ve made things that were a bigger waste of time?
Edward James Awesome!
I’ve been in the habit of making my own tee-shirts for a while – over the years, I’ve used iron-on transfers, stippled acrylic fabric paint, and even spray paint, although that didn’t work very well. I’ve been sort of fed up with not being able to make proper stencil shirts, though, so I bought some [...]
capAbility Games on the News!
We’re on the news! It’s only two minutes long, but features consumers from the Albany Center for the Disabled playing our game, Professor Kathleen Ruiz answering questions, description via newscaster, and an awesomely vague one-line quote from me. Damn right I laid out those constraints!
Tex Mechs
Last semester, I took a game development class – our project was a game called Tex Mechs. We used a large rear projection screen (6’ tall, 8’ wide) with a pressure sensitive floor mat and a Wiimote tucked into a more exciting enclosure to create a physically immersive, anime stylized video game. We ran it [...]