Archive for March, 2008
Build Your Own Portable Media Center Extender
Hack 247, the DIY electronics blog from across the pond, fires a massive shot across the bow with their inaugural post. Here, Hack 247 details plans for building a portable media center extender, using only an XBOX, a wireless video sender/reciever and the guts of an old Sony PSOne LCD Screen. Total cost? About $50 [...]
Build Your Own Top-Secret Book Safe
Been looking for an ultra top-secret place to hide your jewels and baubles? The “How to Do Stuff” blog has your solution, as a reprint of the original article by “Aud1073cH.” The basic rundown? Cut holes in pages, glue together, and boom: instant safe, with all the security of a giant in-wall model, but none [...]
Project WMD: The Weapon of Mass Destruction
Somewhere along the line, case modding went away and total, custom, complete case fabrication became the new gold standard. I mean, really…you can only fit so many windows onto a mid-tower, and still get that “oooooh” reaction that is music to modders’ ears. In this tradition, bit-tech.net has unveiled Project WMD: The Weapon of Mass [...]
Build Your Own Digi-Comp Logic Machine
In the late 1960s, Childcraft released the Digi-Comp, a build-it-yourself logic machine that taught basic logic, including Boolean algebra. Children breathlessly put their Digi-Comps together, and then went on to become advanced circuit designers as adults. The toy still has a major following, but original Digi-Comps are somewhat rare…fetching around $150 on eBay. Well, Minds-on-Toys [...]
Gutted and Sandwiched Television with Halo Glow
Perhaps inspired by the Philips Ambilight Plasma TVs (you know, the ones that have an ambient glow that are constantly catching fire), MetkuMods has a similar project build using an LCD montitor. Here, the LCD is stripped from its normal case, sandwiched between two pieces of plexi and bolted back together. A few LEDs provide [...]
Build Your Own iPod Shuffle Lego Dock
“elbarto241″ has an important lesson for us all: Sometimes the best solution is right in front of your face (or in your kids’ toy box). He has put together a nice little dock for the iPod Shuffle (people still own iPod Shuffles?) which has the nice “iPod altar” aesthetic of some of those big Bose [...]
Build Your Own 35mm Paper Camera
Linatree has posted a PDF and instructional video allowing you to construct a working 35mm pinhole camera using only paper. Okay, so it’s not the sturdiest of camera solutions, but it is free, and is a big improvement over those shoebox pinhole cameras you made when you were a kid. Print the PDF, fold it [...]
Build Your Own Altoid Tin Battery Pack
Okay, so this one’s been around for a while, but what the hell, it’s Saturday. And besides, our interview with Rachel yesterday had me thinking about it all over again. Chris has managed to revise his original design, and create an external iPod battery pack out of a miniature Altoid tin. He’s posted a complete [...]
The GiY Interview: Rachel Hill from Freshly Squeezed Flash
We first profiled Rachel’s site, Freshly Squeezed Flash, about two weeks ago. Since then, her tutorials on modding keychain flash drives, and her store which sells ready-made versions, has continued getting a lot of attention. Her flourishing business has been featured on Gizmodo, EverythingUSB, and even as a case study in “micro-business” on Java.net. Okay, [...]
“Hacking” Hotel Room Pay-Per-View
The Damn Blog has an interesting little article up regarding circumventing the protection systems on hotel pay-per-view. Now, while we would never condone such an activity, this article still caught our interest. It definitely smacks of those old Cult of the Dead Cow text files we were all swapping around on BBSs back in the [...]
