One morning, in a highly caffeinated state, I had a Wouldn’t it be Neat if (WibNi) moment…

Wouldn’t it be Neat if someone took a CNC router and used it to make flat pack furniture?

Then to really get things going, setup these in home centers where people could buy plywood and get it routered on site? Then too really, REALLY, get things going, setup a website to collaborate on router/flat pack designs that anyone can use.

Then a customer could upload the design to the machine, pay for the plywood (and any required hardware) and pay for the time on the router.

Turns out that someone has (kinda) started down this path. Because We Can has used their CNC router to create a coffee table that could be made from just ply wood (although they have a plastic top).

Link: Tree coffee table

Jwin is a interweb music star. You have been holding back on us…

Link to all Youtube videos.

Cleaning out a box of cds from University, I ran found a whole bunch of Nintendo ROMs. So I copied them over and went looking for a current Nintendo emulator and ended up with Nestopia. For the complete gaming feel, I plugged in my xbox 360 wired controller (which is a usb device) and after some fiddling with Nestopia, I was playing SMB3!

The controller needs some fine tuning but the overall experience was a throw back to the 8 bit world of the Nintendo Entertainment System. Good times.

In BC last week I tried 1516 lager from the Okanagan Spring Brewery and it was pretty damn good. Now I just need to find it in Ontario.

So apparently you can buy a Dance Dance Revolution Machine on Amazon.

For the price of a car. Yikes.

Thanks to Stephen for the link up.