Geeky Gadgets has created another custom type stand for the iPad/iPhone. The latest device lets you connect both units together and allows you to use the two screens to surf on one while watching something on the other device.
The iPad/iPhone connector is made from some U shaped plastic. To built it you just need a 24 CM length of the plastic along with some glue, scissors, paint and a Dremel to smooth the edges off. [click to continue…]
It was the remote control car that I had the most fun with when I was a kid. I loved them. I had a great time racing them with mates wherever we had enough ground space (usually in the back garden or around the cul de sac) but that was almost 15 years ago. Nowadays though I'm still a big kid only this time the sky's the limit (sorry for the bad joke). Its all about helicopters. Remote control helicopters.
There are retail outlets all over the world where you can purchase one of these great gadgets. They come in a huge variety of sizes and models such as the Picoz Micro RC Helicopter. But what if you could build your own RC helicopter?? [click to continue…]
If you think using an Apple Magic Trackpad with batteries is a waste of energy and time (as in charging time) then this USB power hack could work for you.
The hack uses a battery sized adapter that feeds the trackpad with the juice it needs to run. A cable runs out of the side of the battery compartment and on to a USB port to get 5V of power.
There's a couple of problems with it though. First is that it seems a shame to hack up a Magic Trackpad like that. If you can get over that little design issue then the other problem is that a USB port provides 5 volts and the Magic Trackpad needs about 3. [click to continue…]
When you break an Apple MacBook Air the first thing you probably wont think of is chopping it up and making in to an All-In-One keyboard.
This is exactly what the MacBook Air Project is about. A MacBook Air user broke his laptop and decided to take all the insides out and cut them to size and attach them to the underside of a wireless Apple keyboard and Magic track pad. [click to continue…]
A user over at moddedbybacteria has managed to squash an N64 in to a Sega Game Gear case. The portable N64 also has the controller squashed inside the casing too making it quite a small portable games console.
The left of the screen is the home to the joystick and to the right of the screen a number of controls. On the back top of the device is an N64 cartridge slot.
It actually appears to work very well from what we see in the video. You can check out more pictures over here along with some details and more indepth pictures showing the insides of the portable N64. [click to continue…]
The Pandigital Novel is an eBook reader that costs $179 off the shelf. It has a large 7 inch colour touchscreen and runs Google Android in the background that has a custom software interface on the top for reading eBooks.
Someone has managed to bypass the custom software to access Android direct which makes the eReader in to a nice 7 inch Android OS tablet.
Once the custom software is bypassed it allows apps to be installed such as the Amazon Kindle App and other eBook reader apps. Also it allows you to install games and most other apps that you can think of. [click to continue…]
For those wanting to modify the colour of their new Xbox 360 slim, check out colorwarepc. The company lets you buy an Xbox 360 slim and specify what colours you want it to be rather than the regular colour that ships from the stores.
When visiting the website you get to choose what colours you want the Xbox 360 slim and can use the user interface to design your own. To have colorwarepc ship the Xbox 360 slim it costs $500 including the Xbox and the new colour scheme. For those who already have an Xbox 360 slim, it costs $175 to use the service which doesn't include the mail-in cost to get it to the company. [click to continue…]
Check out this cool printer. It is built of LEGO and uses a felt tip pen to print on standard paper.
The kit cannot be purchased in a standard kit, ie, it's not LEGO mindstorms controlling the system. Instead the creator managed to design, build and code it all from scratch using analog motor electronics along with sensors and a printer driver. The LEGO printer connects up to a Mac using a USB interface.
When using the printer it looks to work like a standard printer on a Mac in that when you instruct a document to be printed, you can select the LEGO Felt Tip 110 printer from the drop down menu. [click to continue…]
The Asus Eee PC 701 is a netbook that launched a couple of years ago. It had a 7 inch screen when launched and kick started the netbook scene to what it is today.
This particular Asus Eee 701 has been modded and changed in to a tablet form factor. The guy responsible goes by the name of McG and took the Eee apart, made a few modifications inside and put it back together.
Since everything did work well, he went ahead and began to use it for the function it was originally designed for: to read eBooks, watching movies made by DVD Shrink, and to use as a portable media player. In case you would want to mod your EeePC, you could also choose better Touchscreen drivers with 90 deg, 180 deg and 270 orientations.
This Nintendo Gameboy has had a port added that allows it to transmit video signals to a TV via a custom built box.
The custom built box is actually an old VHS cassette that is home to a bunch of electronics and sits in-between the Game Boy and TV.
The details are a bit on the light side in that the video just shows the Game Boy TV working, but doesn't provide details of how it works. [click to continue…]
Hack a Day have managed to mod a SNES controller to include USB support and accelerometer support. This was achieved by using a Teensy USB development board along with a 3D accelerometer which were both crammed inside the SNES controller.
The Teensy board is used to allow the controller to connect to a PC via USB, but can also read signals from the 3D accelerometer and pass them back to the computer. The buttons are translated to key presses on the keyboard and the movements translated to mouse movements allowing the controller to be used to navigate around games such as Portal.
Other uses of the modified SNES controller could include support for more games and the creator also says it could be used to brute-force passwords if movement is translated in to various keystroke inputs. [click to continue…]
Over on the Benheck forums a user has uploaded some pictures of what he claims to be the worlds first portable SEGA Saturn.
The only information provided about it is that the unit has a 7 inch screen, a joy stick, triggers, memory card slot and the VCD card is also integrated allowing for video CD's to be played back.
It runs on a 9 volt battery which apparently is good enough to watch a movie and somemore. [click to continue…]
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