The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Use a Nintendo SNES controller on a Sony PSP! via Hacked Gadgets. The Foo writes… Some time ago I was contacted by a nice guy in the US. He asked me wether I would be interested in building a psp mod for his partner. She has limited use of one of her hands and as […]
If you’re prone to scratching or loosing your Wii games, there’s a way to back up your games to DVD and play them later. An alpha copy of Wii Backup Loader was leaked to the public a while back, and combined with the hack to enable your Wii to run homebrew, this will allow your […]
This is some crazy chicken wing flappin’ action folks, and it looks like a lot of fun too! The system is powered by an Arduino and uses a hidden camera to analyze the players movement. There is a great flickr photo set of the build too! Existing consumer toy chickens were hacked, removing all circuits […]
Retro Tennis for Two on display at the Brookhaven Lab in celebration of its 50th anniversary @ The NY Times… รขโฌลI BRAG to people that I was probably the first kid to play a video game,รขโฌย said Robert Dvorak Jr. That happened half a century ago here at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where Mr. Dvorakรขโฌโขs father […]
Bunnie (Chumby engineer and all around hardware hacker) got a Nintendo DSi… and took it apart… I couldnรขโฌโขt help myself from buying one of theseรขโฌยฆand taking it apart. The DSi is pretty cool: it has not one, but two, cameras embedded in it. One faces forward so you can see yourself, and the other can […]
A stick had the honor of being inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame. I love what the curator had to say about it. “This toy is so fantastic that it’s not just for humans anymore. You can find otters, chimps and dogs — especially dogs — playing with it.” (Anyone else having Ren […]
Italian duo Eva & Franco Mattes 0100101110101101.org had a show up in June at Dutch gallery Mu called It’s always six o’clock . It features toys and characters taking over other toys and characters, including the piece above with Winnie the Pooh. More pictures, via Buzzfeed.
