From the category archives:
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 display.
Augmented reality is a mixture of bringing internet and computer related information with every day life and this DIY 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…]
The Arch Ball Clock is a DIY project that you can build. It uses 2 stepper motors to control the 2 arches. The arch on the left represents hours and the one on the right represents minutes. The arches hold a steel ball bearing which rolls freely on the arch above the number that gives the time. [click to continue…]
A Gameboy Emulator has been created for the Texas Instruments graphic calculators. It is compatible with TI-83+SE, TI-84+, and TI-84+SE calculators and has advanced far enough that it does more then the original black and white that the first emulator was capable of. As of now it can render 4 greyscales and gives you the ability to switch over the blacks and whites.
The software was written by Brendan Fletcher and it runs on the Z-80 based calculators due to the CPU’s being similar. [click to continue…]
The NES Controller Pendant was custom built by an Etsy seller named Sarah Lynne who runs Sarah Lynne Designs. It was put together by using wire, paper and paint. [click to continue…]
The Atari 2600 was a classic games console. Another classic device from the past is the original iPod. What one modder has done is mixed the 2 together to create a classic Atari 2600 iPod dock.
The cartridge slot has been modified and had an iPod connector put in it’s place. All you then simply do is connect your iPod up and your good to go. [click to continue…]
There are a bunch of ways you can stand your iPhone up for viewing the screen easier while watching a movie. Geeky Gadgets – the experts at making crazy iPhone stands out of regular household stuff have now created a new iPhone stand out of old CD’s. [click to continue…]
