Wii Nunchuck LED Addition

This guys turned out way better than mine did.  Don't get me wrong mine looks great but

it took longer than it should.  These instructions come straight from the hack-a-mod web

site.  There are several other posts and sites out there involving the same idea but this

is the only one I could find without broken links.  

Items needed:
1 Tri-wing screw driver. (just google tri-wing to find one to buy)
1 LED color of your choice (3mm)
1 12v resistor (if you care about battery life)
1 nunchuck
1 15watt soldering iron
solder
electrical tape

First use your Tir-wing screw driver to unscrew the nunchuck. Force off the top as it has 2 clips that it connects to.  (kaokensho note for the novice: search ebay for bulk deals on tri-wing screw drivers + NDS hinges or something like that.  Chances are you can get a tri-wing + parts for the same price as buying it by itself.)
Second, bend your LED to look like picture one (the long leg of the LED is the positive ( + ) on and the short is the negative ( - ) . If you want to save battery power, cut some of a leg off and add a resistor to it. Place a piece of electrical tape on the nunchuck PCB board to avoid shorts.
(kaokensho note for the novice: the longer lead of your LED goes to the positive.  Also notice that there is electrical tape over the board to prevent any shorts!)
Then you are going to solder the legs of the LED to the test points on the nunchuck that I have pointed out for you (if you have trouble with the small test points i have listed alternates). Plug the nunchuck into your wiimote to test it out.
If you get your light to well... light up, you've done it right. Put the guts of your nuchuck back into its body and screw it back in. And thats it!!!! 

-kaokensho

MEGA DOOM

I have no prob admitting to being a fan one of video games most well known icons, Mega Man.  I listen to The Megas righteous tribute rock, paste mega art work on everything, play Mega Man 2 semi-regularly just to keep fresh.  So when I finally stumbled on this...well I had to play it.  Problem is I can't seem to find it anywhere!  The project started in 2009 and has since become difficult to find.   Full info can be found at DOOM Wiki which is where this little snippet comes from:

MM8BDM strives to unify Doom-style gaming with Mega Man's game world.

All of the graphics have been changed to the colorful 8-bit Mega Man graphics. A number of new graphics were also added.

The default weapon is Mega Man's Mega Buster for all robots.

Most weapons have been changed to fire projectiles rather than use hitbox detection. There are several weapons which use hitbox detection, though these weapons aren't necessarily more powerful than the projectile weapons.

There are 60 new weapons the player can use; each Robot Master's weapon is in the game, as well as some extras!

Every Robot Master from Mega Man 1-6 is playable, as well as various other characters from the series.

Every character has been given a number of new animation frames as well, since none of them possessed the other four angles of movement that Doom characters do.

In fact, all moving 2D objects have a newly-made full range of animation frames! (As well as the occasional stationary 2D object.)

A number of items in the game which the player can use to help them along.

An impressive amount of new deathmatch levels -- 53 in total -- as well as 9 capture the flag stages.

A single player story mode, where the player works their way through the robot tournament, fighting computer-controlled opponents and many deadly bosses.

Since I started drafting this post I finally found the official MM8BD web site.  It is here that you can find releases, forums and all things required to rock out with RockMan....

http://cutstuff.net/mm8bdm/?cat=19

That horrible...horrible...MegaMan movie.  "Where did Dr. Light put that self destruct button!?!?" 

-kaokensho

iCade

I love amazon, even if I don't buy a product from them they're a great source of product info from suckers just like me.  When I saw the above image I decided to search it out on amazon.com.  Turns out there are a few different schemes.  The following is a well written product review by J. Harvey that answered all but one question....

       First I should mention that the iCade cabinet design may look like the picture on this page, or one with a more rainbow look to it. Don't worry though, it looks great. Very 80s.
       The hardware itself is excellent. The joystick and buttons are super-responsive, just like a real arcade machine. Assembly was a little annoying; the screws and holes didn't always line up too well. Once you get it together, though, the construction is solid.   It uses two AA batteries for power, and comes with them, which is nice. There's a port for an AC adapter, too, but it doesn't come with that and the manual doesn't give its specifications. It says you can buy one on ION Audio's website, but even now (March 2012) it doesn't appear that you can. I asked ION about this and they said that batteries provide 70 hours of use, so the lack of an official AC adapter isn't a big deal. They also told me the AC adapter you need is 5V DC, 110V AC, 500 mA pin negative, so if you want one you may be able to find one on the internet somewhere.
      There's no power switch, you turn the iCade on by pressing one of the buttons or moving the stick. There's a lighted coin slot on the front that acts as a power light. When you don't use the iCade for a few minutes, it turns off automatically, which is nice for conserving battery life.
       The iCade connects to the iPad over Bluetooth. It works fine, though you'll want to turn the Bluetooth on the iPad off when you're not using a related app, since the iPad thinks it's a keyboard and won't display the on-screen keyboard in other apps, like Safari, while it's connected.  The only software that supported the iCade on launch was the Atari's Greatest Hits app, which comes with one free game. At first it was Pong, but now it's Missile Command. It may change to a different game later. The app has 18 arcade games and 82 Atari 2600 games. You can buy a 4-pack of related games, like Centipede and Millipede for both arcade and 2600, for $0.99, or you can buy all 100 games for $14.99.
       I bought all the games for simplicity's sake, though they're not all gems. Most of the arcade games are good or at least OK, but frankly, most of the 2600 games suck. Backgammon? Circus Atari? Concentration? Really? Some surprised me, like Battlezone, which is almost better than the arcade version. Some classics like Adventure are here too, plus unreleased prototypes like Combat 2. A lot of the arcade games are vector games, like Asteroids, Battlezone, and Tempest to name a few.
      The iCade supports portrait and landscape mode, though the iPad is a lot more secure in portrait. In portrait, you place the iPad between two ridges that make up a stand, the front of which is notched so you can access the home button. In landscape, you place it in a little groove in front of the portrait stand, and unlike in portrait, it can slide around in there. For either position, if you have an iPad case, you'll probably have to take it off in order to get it to fit.  Whichever orientation you choose, you can fiddle with the settings in Atari's Greatest Hits to have it display the way you want. For most games you just have to change the "Orientation" option, but for other games you have to change the "Control type" to Arcade. It would be nice if there was an option that changed it globally, but it does save your options for each game, so you only have to change it for each one once. I tend to like portrait mode better; the iCade was obviously designed for this mode, and the arcade games look more authentic.
      Unfortunately, you can't adjust the joystick sensitivity in the app, so it's much more difficult to control games with paddles, like Pong, Warlords, and Breakout. I actually prefer to use the touch controls for those games. For most of the other games, though, the iCade controls are far superior.
      There are plenty of third-party games now. The most recent, updated list is at [...]. For some reason, iCade-compatible games can't be listed as such on the App Store. I haven't tried too many of them, but if your iPad is jailbroken you can get iMAME4All, which supports pretty much every classic arcade game imaginable. If you know what MAME is, that may be enough to push you to get this.
      Overall, I don't think it's worth buying an iPad specifically for this, since you could put together your own full-size arcade machine from various parts (cabinet, screen, PC with MAME, speakers, etc) for not much more. Still, if you have an iPad already, it's great fun and very worth the price of the iCade. I got it for $100 right at launch and that was probably too much, but I couldn't resist. Even when I'm not using it, it makes a great conversation piece. If this were $50, I'd give it five stars.

-kaokensho