User AUTUIN at Free Geek Vancouver took apart a Coleman TV Lantern and mounted the guts inside a 1950’s era radio. In doing so, he used the Arduino TV Out library to make the screen stream Buckminster Fuller quotations that are saved to an SD card.
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This guy dyed the major case parts of his factory-white MacBook bright orange using Rit fabric dye (and swapped out some other bits with a factory-black model) to create this cool custom color scheme. This method is known in the modding community, but “The Brain” has improved on its speed and consistency for glossy parts […]
Continue ReadingPart computer, part mini motorbike, this cool casemod by René Grau can reach speeds of up to 40mph. Build details are scant, but at least we can admire this gaming PC’s road handling. [via Technabob]
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Check out Travis’ (Saskatoon, SK, Canada) sweet stereo casemod using a 60s-era Fleetwood model 4057 cabinet stereo record player/radio (like sold via Sears) with a modern turntable (a Stanton T.80 turntable, capable of digital S/PDIF output), a digital music system (via a mini-ITX computer), amp and controller. Console record player retrofit
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I have an old vintage tube radio and have thought about putting modern electronics in it, too. This one has some cool features, like it actually plays the MP3 and modern AM and FM tuners through the original AM tube radio, using the last two channels 340 and 307 KHz, so you get that crap… […]
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Kent was impatient at having his Chumby Guts laying loose on the table, so he took to the box that it came in. This is a good way to see what the casing process entails and considering what it will ultimately need before committing to a proper case. Think of it as a Chumby case sketch model. Some of the other possibilities we’ve heard are cigar box Chumby, Teletubby embedding (called either TeleChumby or ChumbyTubby). MAKE Flickr pool member Pauric posted a nice set of photos showing how he gutted his first gen Chumby and installed it in a nice wooden case.
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Not since the WiFi sniffer built to look like a sniper rifle has there been a project with “Bad idea” stamped so many times over it. Matt from NYC Resistor cased a Sansa 2GB MP3 player inside of a decommissioned training hand grenade. (There was already something of a bomb scare at NYC Resistor when […]
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