Archive for March, 2008
AntWorks: Ant Farms Get Awesome
As a kid, you fell into one of two camps. Either you bought an ant farm, sent away for your ants, and were fascinated as they toiled, dug tunnels, and built colonies…or you were fascinated as the ants tried to get their bearings after you shook the whole thing up and destroyed weeks of their […]
Build Your Own Networked Cufflinks
When you’re wearing a suit, it’s sometimes tough to make the entire room know that you are officially More Tech Than They Are. However, Mark of Geek Technique found a way with these cufflinks. Pressed for time, and saddled with a French-cuffed shirt, Mark did just what you would expect a GiYer would do…he whipped […]
Build Your Own NES Controller Cell Phone
Ugh, we’ve all been seen with a godawful cell phone stuck to our ear in a public place. Well, Sam of DIYHappy wasn’t having it anymore. So he gutted an old NES controller, and crammed a Nokia 3200 (selected for its size and ease of disassembly) into it. The first prototype is alittle rough…for example, […]
Build Your Own PC Remote Control
Who wouldn’t want a killer PC remote control, to use with a Media Center PC or otherwise? Granted, you could buy one of the pricey Creative Labs models, but [Odin84gk] went a slightly different way. He built his own version out of an old XBOX DVD playback kit and some freely available, clever scripting, with […]
Build Your Own Flashlight iPod Boombox
Check out this monaural (but still plenty impressive) boombox built into the housing for a big Eveready flashlight. The speaker fits over the mouth, and it sits over a miniature amp scavenged from a set of desktop speakers and an iPod Nano with a wireless remote. Details are sketchy, as we only have links to […]
How to Open Your XBOX 360 Without Voiding Your Warranty
So, maybe you want to pull apart your brand spanking new XBOX 360 to, I dunno, experiment with larger hard drives, put in a wireless hack, or some kind of freaky modchip. But it would be a shame to scratch and chip up that beautiful white plastic, so what’s a GiYer to do? CleverMod.com has […]
Convert Your Nintendo Wii into a Free Tivo-Like DVR Box
The widespread availability of digital video recorder boxes through your local cable company means that paying for a service, such as Tivo, makes little to no sense. For as little as six bucks, most cable companies will now supply you with a DVR box, allowing you to record and “pause” live television. But what if […]
Build Your Own Remote Control Alarm Clock
Okay…so this one’s not for the faint of heart, as it requires a fairly heavy amount of circuitry hacking. But once you image the practical applications of a remote control alarm clock, we’re sure you’ll want to give it a try. The premise is simple: configure an ordinary alarm clock to work with a dime-store […]
Build Your Own Giant Dry Erase Board
Suppose, for a second, that you are getting ready to outfit the offices of your brand new startup company. You need a place to jot down ideas, right? You could, of course, drop over a hundred bucks on a 3′ by 4′ dry erase board over at Staples. That is, if you wanted to buy […]
Build Your Own Pirates of the Caribbean Clock Tower
To mark the release of the Pirates of the Caribbean sequel, Haunted Dimensions a FREE papercraft model of the clock tower that stands outside the ride at Walt Disney World. You know the drill…print it out, fold it up!
Be sure to take a poke around the rest of the site, as well. There some interesting […]
