Gizmodo University concludes its Discover Electronics Online series with the construction of an Atari Punk Console. Impress your friends and intimidate your enemies with Lo-Fi sound effects! And did we mention? We’ve got Certificates of Achievement! Certificates for everybody!*
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Need a remote shutter for your Canon dSLR? One modder hacked up a classic Atari 2600 joystick to focus and fire – making us question, where’s that matching laser reticle when you need it?
I don’t want to say that ILM and Weta did a bad job on Avatar‘s visual effects, but an Atari 2600 edition of Avatar would still get most of the point across.
A crazy British engineer named Iain Sharp decided to honour the 40th anniversary of the moon landing by building a real-life version of the classic Atari game Lunar Lander. And you know what? It’s pretty great.
These Atari wallets are half awesome, half impractical. I mean, they’re retro cool and all, but who wants to sit on a plastic cartridge? [NilesZ]
