Archive for the 'DIY' Category

Real Mouse

This is a real mouse, gutted and fitted with parts from small laptop mice. Yucks, it is disgusting if you look at the process that they made this mouse. Will you use this mouse? Click the link below to see more pictures and a video of the mouse in action.
Instructables via gizmodo

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

DIY NES Guitar

NES Paul created his DIY NES guitar which is the World’s first functional NES guitar using his original Nintendo from when he was 10 years old.
Destructoid via Makezine

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

Home-Built Touchscreen Tablet

Want to get a Wacom Cintiq but it is too expensive? Let’s build our own “high accuracy pressure/tilt sensitive” touchscreen tablet.
Ignore the moire patterns, that’s just a problem with videoing a screen, it looks fine to human eyes. The Wacom Cintiq costs £2000, this one cost £80

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

Floppy Drive Pan Cam

Milan Gajic created a cool web controlled floppy drive powered pan cam. Simple left and right commands on this page allow anyone on the net to have the floppy drive move the camera around to get look out of Milan’s window.

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Pumpkin Computer

Pumpkin Computer is a fully functional PC inside pumpkin. It features a 1.6-GHz Intel Pentium M processor, 512MB of DDR2 RAM, a DVD/RW drive and lots of LED lighting.
The pumpkin modification started by hollowing out and drying the squash for the night. The next day, fans were stuck into the eyes with the grills […]

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

How to Make Hard Drive Speakers

Leevonk shows us how to make these nice looking hard drive speakers.

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Steampunk Laptop

Steampunk sculpture is actually a fully-functional laptop which is created by a creative Japanese fellow. There’s a working display, working wooden space bar, and a stylish Morse key over the trackball. It’s even got USB, Ethernet, VGA-out, and all the modern trimmings.
IronWork via Kotaku

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Floppy Disk Bag

Imanalchemist writes “This is a bag I made from floppy disks. I found scads of floppy disks in a dumpster and wanted to make plate mail armor out of it (that is my next floppy project) I found out that a bag would be a great proof of concept project. Here goes…”
How to make […]

Monday, September 25th, 2006