From the category archives:
This steering wheel has to be the most unique idea I have ever seen for an iPhone. It is built of Lego and is capable of rotating left or right an iPhone sat in a Lego dock.
The whole system is built from Lego Technic including the small stand it sits on. No instructions have been provided so you’ll have to watch the video closely to see what is needed to build it yourself. See the video after the jump. [click to continue…]
This is one of the most random gadgets I have seen in the last few years. The device is called the automated turn switch off machine and all it does is switch a toggle switch off every time you try to switch it on. I can’t see any other purpose then perhaps reminding you to switch off all your electronic devices when you are not using them – and that’s really stretching the purpose of it in my opinion.
When switching the toggle switch on the lid opens and a wooden hand type device jumps out and switches the switch off. The device has no micro-controller inside and everything is analogue. Check out the video below. [click to continue…]
Ben Heck is well known for hacking up consoles and making them in to portable units. One of them is a PS3 Slim converted in to a laptop style setup allowing it to be carried around and played on the go. The PS3 Slim Laptop has a 17 inch HD display allowing for crystal clear graphics.
The PS3 Slim Laptop has been listed on eBay now by altfeldtoy who mentions he actually won the PS3 laptop in a local business competition. Currently there are 26 bids on the auction with the latest amount being $3,350.00 USD. [click to continue…]
This USS Enterprise from the famous Star Trek has been hacked and modded in to a fully working RC submarine. The Enterprise model used is the NCC-1701-A and as can be seen in the video below it actually works quite well under water.
The Enterprise Sub was created by a specialist team of modders called aqua modelers who meet up yearly to show of their latest underwater hackery. [click to continue…]
Bacteria is a SEGA fan who has spent about 4 months recently hacking a SEGA DreamCast in to a portable console. The portable SEGA DreamCast is called IntoDream and has stereo speakers, an N64 analogue stick, full rumble features and a built in VMU (visual memory unit).
The system uses a 5 inch LCD screen taken from a PSone and although a chunky portable device, it fully works as a DreamCast would. The IntoDream is powered by a six amp battery that is capable of powering the device for about two hours which isn’t too bad considering the machine it’s powering. [click to continue…]
Check out this custom built chair that was made entirely from Nintendo Super Famicom cartridges. It is unknown at this moment how many old gaming cartridges were used to built it, and where they got all the games from to build it, but for a complete nerd it might be a cool thing to have in your bedroom for when you are playing games.
The 7-foot throne can be found over here where the writer doesn’t really give any information other than saying what it is. [click to continue…]
This old 8-bit NES cartridge was hacked up and converted in to a full working NES games console. The nesP as it’s called, was created using a noname china brand PMP that has the ability of playing NES ROMS. An old NES controller was then attached to the PMP and all fit snugly inside along with a small colour LCD screen.
The nesP has 4GB of internal memory to store games and as it’s a PMP, it also can play videos, MP3’s as well as acting as an FM radio, picture viewer and audio recorder. The system could potentially work as a video and still camera, but those features were disabled to fit it in the case. [click to continue…]
Jesse Vincent has managed to hack the Amazon Kindle 2. His Kindle 2 now runs Ubuntu 9.04 ported to ARM running in a chrooted environment.
To achieve this the Kindle was hacked in to using a USB networking debug mode that Amazon left open on older Kindle 2’s. Full details are below… [click to continue…]
The Master Boy is a hacked together Sega Master System portable built by Sam Thornley in June last year. It’s built from MDF and duct tape and uses a Master System II concole PCB.
The screen runs directly from the RGB VDP chip built on to the PCB giving a pixel perfect image. [click to continue…]
A guy over at prusadjs has hacked up his old MSI Wind 3 cell battery, attached a USB connector and now it is capable of charging an iPhone.
The iPhone takes about 2.5 hours to fully charge and the netbook battery is left with about 50% of it’s charge left meaning a second full charge of the iPhone should be possible. [click to continue…]
We are seeing more of augmented reality in these last few weeks in products such as the iPhone, business cards and now the DIY wearable computer with heads up unit that creates an augmented reality display.
Augmented reality is a mixture of bringing internet and computer related information with every day life and this DIY augmented reality display headset makes use of this technology. By using a Motorola iDEN i425 the unit has an always-on internet connection. A Myvu Crystal is used for the HUD and a Sony UMPC attaches it altogether. [click to continue…]
The Lunar Lander game kind of reminds me of them grabber games in the arcades where you need to pick up a teddy bear. This version has a lunar lander module attached to the arm which you need to carefully control till you land on a specified target. A number of old school instruments and dials let you know if your moving too fast and what speed etc…
The game is based around an ATMEL AVR microcontroller and uses an Arduino board to connect it to a USB port, via serial to a PC. [click to continue…]
Here is an image of the beginnings of an aquarium made from a light bulb.
It is built from a normal light bulb that has been butchered a bit to empty the innards out and put some small rocks/pebbles inside. [click to continue…]
This vintage Sony Transistor TV was gutted out, drilled, padded, polished and somewhere in that process suddenly became a bag. [click to continue…]
This cool video shows a highly modified RC plane that houses not only a cool camera that can pan around the plane, but also a few rocket launchers that you can attach fireworks to.
The owners website has a bunch of information on what he has done to the plane and how it all works. [click to continue…]
