Fun & Games

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.

NES DVD player mod

NES DVD player mod

This maker decided to put an old $20 DVD player into the body of an NES in order to give his movie watching some gamer street cred. We especially like the explosed buttons on the circuit board glued to the top of this hack. NES DVD Player MOD

Classic camp stove and lamp galleries

Classic camp stove and lamp galleries

Mister Jalopy of Dinosaurs and Robots points us to these cool collections of classic camping kerosene lamps and stoves. Having spent the better part of my youth hiking and camping, I fondly remember a lot of these models. Spiritburner.com Motoshi Makino’s Classic Camping Collection Other awesome stove/lantern collections via Spiritburner.com

Levelhead code released under GPL

Levelhead code released under GPL

To followup our previous post about this project, New Zealand born, Madrid-based artist, Julian Oliver has released the source code under the GPL for his excellent “Level Head” installation that uses computer vision and ARToolkit marker imprinted cubes as the user interface of a game in which a character moves through a 3D labyrinth. Also, […]

The 3PS60 Controller

The 3PS60 Controller

On Ben Heck’s forums, this modder shows how he managed to cram an Xbox 360 wired controller inside the shell of a PS3 Dual Shock shell. This mod is done with the PS3 board (original version) stripped of almost all of its parts and the controller’s daughter board kept intact (mostly) and the CL board […]