DIYs & Mods

Over the last few months Hard drive clocks have been all the rage on sites selling handmade goods, but most of them have featured clock mechanisms inserted into a HD shell. Unlike those devices, the clock featured here actually uses the drive mechanism and heads to tell the time (the arms indicate minutes and the platter position used to indicate ...

If only I could have used my old Etch A Sketch like this guy does when I was a kid, my parents wouldn’t have called me a failure constantly. Using toys much like the Lego Artist, Jeff Gagliardi uses the simple Etch A Sketch toy for a not so simple purpose…recreating masterpieces of art. For the last 35 years, Gagliardi ...

If you would like to take all of the portable fun out of the Nintendo DS by supersizing it, be prepared to shell out around $600 for parts. Still with me? If so, check out the link below to find out everything you need to put one of these together yourself. On the other hand, you could simply offer the ...

Imagine a coffee maker that precisely times your coffee and delivers a perfect cup time and time again – all thanks to the power of the internet. Now your caffeine laden dreams can finally become a reality thanks to the folks behind this Internet Enabled Coffee Machine hack. All you need to enjoy precision coffee and a more flexible scheduling ...

With one $25 Hot Wheels Radar Gun and a little bit of effort you can have a more “practical, useful, radar gun with better features” thanks to this hack by Kipkay. In the end, the mod will allow you to turn the gun on without having to hold the trigger down, and a new battery configuration will give you better ...

But won’t salt water etching fuck up my iPod? If that thought entered your mind as you read the title of this article, you probably don’t have the stomach to go ahead with this project. However, if you don’t mind taking a risk, or you are looking for an excuse to pick up one of the new iPods anyway – ...

An admittedly bored ( but highly skilled ) audiophile named Adam McCall managed to entertain himself by pulling off this beautiful 3-Way Tower Speaker project using all Hi-Vi drivers – and now you can too thanks to his detailed instructions. According to Adam the goal was to “design a loudspeaker that sounds and performs beautifully across the whole bandwidth. I ...

The spectacular “Beat Dress” seen above was part of a project conducted for a Fashion and Technology course at the School of Arts and Communication at Malm� University. The light show comes courtesy of 10 detachable patches on the dress that are equipped with 10 LEDs. There is also a microphone and a small equalizer connected to a microcomputer that ...

For one reason or another Brian Dettmer decided to make a skull out of melted 80’s metal band cassettes from the likes of Motley Cr�e and Judas Priest. So what is the deal here? Is it a commentary on the death of metal? Does it celebrate the genre? Is it a commentary on how aging rock stars should stay the ...

Barbie has been a bad girl. Apparently bad enough to be executed via capital punishment. You know, we haven’t seen Ken around the mall lately. Did he get killed off at some point? Barbie could have whacked him for all we know. We must say though, that striped shirt doesn’t do Barbie any justice. To create this project you’ll need ...