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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 [...]
Build Your Own Wedding Ring for Five Cents
So you’ve already dropped a few grand on the engagement ring, and aren’t too psyched on the idea of spending even MORE money on a wedding band? Instructables has a nice little tutorial for boring out the middle of a nickle, which forms a perfectly functional wedding ring. At least, until you get the scratch [...]
Unbelievable Wolfenstein 3D Case Mod
This outrageous Wolfenstein 3-D case mod began its life as a humble Compaq standard mid-tower, before being transformed into the beast shown at left. The case features analog gauges measuring overall power consumption and fan power, brilliant forced metallic rusting, an LED-lit cut logo in the bottom of the bezel, and a working WWII era [...]
17 Things to Do with an Old NES Console
Chances are, somewhere lurking in your house, there is a dusty old 8-bit NES console, which you haven’t even thought about since you started playing emulated versions of all the old games right on your trusty PC. I have bought and sold entire collections on eBay several times, only to end getting all nostaligic and [...]
Build Your Own Portable 8-Bit Nintendo Entertainment System
Sure, the Nintendo DS is great. But let’s face it, few things beat the satisfaction of sliding one of those big old cartridges into place. Using the “NES on a Chip,” (which can be found inside many grey-market Famicim clones) Ben Heck has put together a truly amazing portable NES. The finished product is only [...]
