Makeshift handlebar smartphone mount
Maker Sebastian Dwornik needed a way to mount a mobile device to his mountain bike in order to field test some software he’d written. His solution, though crude, turned out to be quite effective.
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Make: Projects – Cord curling
I really heart coiled cords. I think coiling is a very elegant way of dealing with the problem of unsightly slack cables, and often I find myself wishing that this or that appliance had come with a coiled cord. Replacement cords that are factory-coiled can usually be purchased and installed (if necessary), but that may be an unnecessary expense because, with some simple tools, it is easy to coil a straight cord yourself.
How-To: Change Lego element colors
It turns out the same dyes that work on computer parts also work on Lego bricks, which are also, in my experience, seemingly never available in the color you need. Lego purists generally frown on paints and adhesives, but frankly being an active builder can get pretty expensive pretty fast, and a lot of that […]
How-To: Dye computer parts
If you even remotely care about the aesthetics of your computer, you’ve probably wished at some point that one or more of your components were a different color. For instance, I prefer my computers to be basic black all over, but more than once have been driven to install a beige part because it was […]
Typewriter modded for music
Fabien Cappello’s “Typing the Sound” does just that by triggering individual notes with each typewriter keystroke – a simple idea with pleasantly whimsical results. Build info is scarce on this one, but the basics come across in the photos here (tactile switches placed beneath each key are presumably trigerring MIDI).
Zombie SNES craves brains/crartridges
Skadrums71 took console modding in an unusual direction with this undead Super Nintendo. It appears those open wounds are infested with resistors … ewww(?) [via Geekologie]
GBA touch-screen mod
Like some piece of gaming tech from an alternate timeline – an anonymous reader points out this vid of a touch-screen NDS GBA made possible via the power of Arduino.
