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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 [...]
Build Your Own Video Game Console
Xbox 360? Playstation 3? Nintendo Wii? Spare me the hype, please. You can have your triple-core processors, motion sensing controllers, and Blu-Ray…but I can kick your ass at Joust.
Meet the XGameStation. For the low price of $199, anyone can get started with the basics of videogame design, programming, and publishing. From the official website:
“The XGameStation [...]
Build Your Own NES Alarm Clock
Now, we know you would never destory working vintage hardware. But if you happen to have an old, broken NES laying around, “Aaron” can show you how to mod it into a working alarm clock. In his version, the power button controls the status of the alarm, on or off. And the Nintendo controller has [...]
Build Your Own Pneumatic Toilet Paper Cannon
Throwing toilet paper up into the trees of your 7th grade history teacher (even if you happen to be 35) is so old-school.
Xinventions.com, however, has plans to build a pneumatic version, that can launch rolls of toilet paper up to 150 feet, with the paper unfurling the whole way.
Unfortunately, the plans aren’t free…but isn’t $15 [...]
Build Your Own Medicine Cabinet Science Fiction Guns
Over in the MAKE forums John writes, “Here’s a how-to I wrote on making spaceships and sci-fi weapons from household items such as aspirin bottles, pvc pipe, toilet bolt covers, some hobby store styrene, and some parts from old models.”
Check out Make Spaceships from Aspirin Bottles and Toilet Items Part 1 and Make Spaceships from [...]
