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Build Your Own Paper Advance Wars Models
A few days ago, we mentioned the papercraft Mario models that you could print out, fold up, and paste together. And NOW we learn that Ninjatoes Papercraft Webpage has Advance Wars tanks available for immediate production. How many Advance Wars tanks? 25 Advance Wars tanks. Man, and I thought the office was getting cluttered as [...]
Build Your Own Pressure Sensitive LED Drink Coasters
The good folks over at MetkuMods are at it again, this time with yet another killer use for the cheap, plentiful, and bright LCDs that are available everywhere nowadays. Using only some scrap acrylic, a few LEDs, and a lithium battery, “Jani ‘Japala’ Pönkkö” has developed an easy-to-build coaster that lights up when in the [...]
Build Your Own Miniature FM Transmitter
Maybe you want to get music out of your iPod and into your car stereo. Oh, sure, you could buy any one of the 2,000 options made available by Belkin, and then you’d not only have an FM transmitter, but ALSO a bunch of nice, white plastic. Why not take matters into your own hands, [...]
Build Your Own Paper Nintendo Mario Models
Ever have the urge to build REAL Mario Paper figurines? GotOrioN.com has full printouts of models you can cut out, fold, and paste together, for fairly complicated polygonal re-creations of your favorite Nintendo heroes. Our favorite has to be Luigi in a Speedo…although Mario in a Bunny Suit is a close second. Anyone wanna print [...]
Build Your Own Fire Breathing Tiki Fireplace
Sure, Monster House may have completed a similar project a few years back, but that monstrosity was all carved, blown-in foam. “BiffInc” takes this project to its next logical step, with a cement exterior for added strength and authenticity. Oh, and did I mention the light-up eyes and smoke-breathing nostrils? Check out the full photo [...]
The Whiskey Bottle Case Mod
The good folks at MetkuMods are at it again, this time with a full build log and tons of photos of an entire, working PC crammed into an old Ballentine’s whiskey bottle. Granted, it may run a little warm…but this project is true case modding royalty. And besides, who doesn’t run a little warm when [...]
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 [...]
