Build a Wiimote from utensils and pins 06/03/2008 These homebrew Wiimotes consist of an infrared LED from RadioShack, a 1.5v button battery, clothes pins, electrical tape, optional chopsticks...
R2D2 toy gets a facelift 06/02/2008 This photo essay shows you step by step procedures for dismantling Hasbro’s R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid. Some pretty nice pictures...
Aircraft carrier PC mod won’t make you want to join the military 06/02/2008 This PC mod turns your average desktop computer into the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier. This maker uses a mini-ITX motherboard...
New Santa Monica Pier ferris wheel sports LED illumination 06/02/2008 The new ferris wheel on LA’s Santa Monica Pier is powered by solar panels and includes 160,000 LEDs on its...
Visualize your music while you play it 06/01/2008 This electric Guitar Laptop mod by Ben Lewry called the “LCDetar” is a really nice hack that makes you look...
Missile launching robot follows the colors 06/01/2008 This “color tracking missile launcher” is a nice hack put together with an Xbee module, wireless camera, some Toshiba TA8050...
Guitar with a replaceable heart sounds sweet 06/01/2008 This guitar has a replaceable custom designed “wooden heart” that can be exchanged for another design to give it a...
Begging robot creates sound, asks for money 05/31/2008 Alexader Gurko’s “Begging Bot” plays music just by synching up the sounds a floppy and hard drive makes when spinning...
Giant seven segment clock provides room lighting as well 05/30/2008 This giant digital overhead clock by Realities:United and titled “Contemporary Architecture” was commissioned by NYC gallery, Artists Space and showed...
Traffic light design from the past uses analog thinking 05/30/2008 This traffic signal design from 1936 by Charles Marshall (called the “Marshalite”) was used in Australia for about 30 years...