The end result is pretty nice…in line with my desperate attempt to be a jack-of-all-trades (and master of some?) I decided to build a model of a mech out of garbage. Now I’ve seen some damn fancy scrap mech building in my day. When you’re done visiting here, check out this stuff, which I think is mostly kit-based but with lots of customization. [via] Link.
Hydroman writes “You might say I am a shade-tree scientist. I am doing a research and development project of my own. I am making hydrogen from beer cans, water and sodium hydroxide. Visit my website to see the plans, watch the videos and leave comments in the forum. I had a lot of fun making the videos. This is an opensource project. Join in the fun!” Link.
Neat lamp a MAKE Flickr pool member made – the base and top are poplar, while the dowels are oak. I used very small dowels to hold the base together (you can barely see them as spots near the bottommost CD). The bottom two layers of the base are hollow, and there’s a piece of round plexiglass to hold everything in. The light is a standard cold cathode tube used for case modding. This thing is freakin’ heavy, since there’s over 200 CDs. Link.
The midiGun is a MIDI controller in a gun. Not a real gun, but one covered in slightly camp flouro green plastic, lots of knobs and switches, a crossfader on the bottom of the barrel, a laser sight and lots more, detailed on this chart. It’s designed using a Doepfer pocket electronics module to control DJ software. [via] Link.
G4’s Attack of the Show tricked out a Big Wheel adding DVD, GPS, neon lights, extra wheels and a lot more. Link. If you’re interested in the Big wheel modding comminuty, check out www.bigwheelrally.com – lots of HOW TOs and events.
Pretty cool case mod- Lucas could easily sell these and pre-load copies of Galaxies on them. Here’s how to make your own Darth Vadar head PC. Ingredients: PIA 800 Mini-ITX Mainboard, Fujitsu 20gig 5400rpm HDD, 1×256 generic SDRam, Astek Micro ATX PSU 90wt, LiteOn 16x DVD drive, Don Post Studios Darth Vader helmet Link.
Hmm, I’d like to learn how to make these. These pencils don’t consist of any wood. Instead they are made out of 20-33% recycled blue denin jeans that have been ground up. The rest is the recycled post-consumer paper. To complete the blue theme, they have a blue eraser and a pewter blue ferrule. For something…greener, you can also get pencils made out of “old money” or recycled U.S. dollar bills. A pack of 12 costs $6. Link.
