"Long before the Pixar movie hits the big screen this summer, a group of German modders have been inspired by Wall-E's cuteness to take an old and unloved Nintendo GameCube and some scraps of metal and acrylic, and put together a sweet mod that looks just like the little robot himself. It even has tank treads and a flip-down shutter..."
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Friday, July 11, 2008
Wall-E GameCube Mod is Awesome [PICS]
22-foot tall robot crafted entirely from excess styrofoam
The creature you see standing before you is a 22-foot tall Styrobot constructed entirely from spare polystyrene packing materials, and no, each piece didn't just show up that way. Michael Salter managed to whittle away on this beast until its completion
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Saturday, June 28, 2008
Creative Goes After Driver Modder
The back story: Since the release of Windows Vista, Creative has promised their Sound Cards as being "Vista Ready". Unfortunately, as many unlucky customers did discover, this is not true. What the users actually found were buggy, feature crippled drivers.
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Lifehacker's Top 10 Office Supply Hacks
Given some spare time and a few neglected items in the office supply closet, anyone can make their workspace more functional, create a cool tools for their home and office, and even rescue seemingly ruined stuff. Today we'll take a look at some unexpected ways to use objects you probably have readily available.
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
Parent of a Dead Child? We CAN Clone Him!
A new form of cloning has been developed that is easier to carry out than the technique used to create Dolly the sheep, raising fears that it may one day be used on human embryos to produce "designer" babies.
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How To: Wifi Predator
The predator is a modified wireless router connected to a high-powered antenna and running custom firmware to actively seek out open wireless connections. Once they are found, it will test them for internet connectivity and then join and repeat the one with the strongest signal to secured wireless connection that YOU control.
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How to make a Sawed-off USB Key
Holy crap-- somebody just went and TORE MY FREAKING USB CABLE IN HALF while it was still attached to my laptop!!! (No-- wait-- sorry. That's just my USB drive.)
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Around 40 of the Worlds Strangest Tanks
My fav: Landships describes the Biggest Tank Ever Built! It is also the Most Strange Armored Fighting vehicle ever constructed.“Lebedenko Tank”, or Tzar tank (after tsar Nikolaj, who helped finance it) . Its history starts in 1914 with the engineer N. Lebedenko, who came up with the idea of a 40-ton battle machine.
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Give an Old Laptop New Life with Cheap (or Free) Projects
Like a famed race horse or a classic book, you don't just throw away a laptop because it's banged up a little. With some free software, a little know-how and some creative thinking about your home network, nearly any old laptop can find its second wind, and today I'll run through some of the best ways to get it there.
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Use Your Wii as a Media Center
The best thing the Nintendo Wii got going for it is the excellent Opera web browser, but web browsing with the Wii remote is still a bit klunky. Luckily, using that very same browser, you can turn your Wii into a full-fledged media center with the freeware Windows application Orb. Here's how
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Make, the first magazine for mods, hardware hacks, and D I Y projects
O'Reilly is going to publish a quarterly hybrid magazine/book (known as a mook in Japan) devoted to digital projects, hardware hacks, and d.i.y. inspiration. 2005 seems promising to modders!
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$70,000 Industrial Robot Modded to Fire Flameballs
There's only one thing better than robots that can destruct things: robots that can destruct things and terrify people by firing flameballs, bowling balls, watermelons and bloody pig entrails at high speed. Like the Robopult, a gigantic $70,000 industrial robotic arm fine tuned to throw all these things like a Terminator version of Roger Clemens.
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Cute Portal Weighted Companion Cube case mod
It's pretty safe to say that Portal was one of the best games released in 2007. For those of you who can't get enough of it, Bit-Tech modder Wolverine has a treat for you. It's time to work with your Weighted Companion PC - cake not included.
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
10 Steps to Become an Email Ninja
Let’s look at some simple strategies for being able to get your inbox to done in as little time as possible.
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Why Broadband TV has got cable companies scared
About one-third of people who subscribe to cable TV or satellite services said they would drop that service if they could get TV shows they wanted over a broadband computer connection, paying a flat fee.
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Retro Star Wars: Steampunk LEGO TIE Fighter vs X-Wing
This TIE Fighter and X-Wing is what happens when you put together Star Wars, LEGO and steampunk in the title of a contest. That and a collective geekgasm
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Turn Your $60 Router into a Super-Router with Tomato
Since last year there's been a lot of development of open source firmwares, and today we're taking a look at my new favorite, a firmware called Tomato. It does almost everything you expect, from Wi-Fi signal boosting to Quality of Service bandwidth allocation, in addition to offering a simplified interface chock full of fancy charts and graphs
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10 Great Flash and Lighting Hacks for Digital Photographers
In this post I’ve found 10 DIY Flash and Lighting Hacks that put some of these lighting techniques within the grasp of the rest of us. Some are more involved than others but all are fun and will provide you with some new lighting gear to experiment with.
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How to Install Wikipedia on Your iPod
Yes that’s right. You can now have the entire Wikipedia encylopedia on your iPod. Clocking in at only 1.7 GB of space, it is a very handy tool if you have the sudden uncontrollable urge while out at the shops to discover the capital of Mongolia or the mating habits of eels
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How To Install Internal 3G Card in the Asus Eee PC (VIDEO)
"Hardware hacking genius and electromagician JKK has published a video tutorial showing how to add an internal 3G HSDPA card to the Asus Eee PC, allowing you to connect to the Internet from anywhere in the world. We talked with JKK and according to him "the hack is doable by any amateur with a solder iron." The price is quite affordable too.
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Awesome Carbon Fiber case mod
This guy has created what is one of the most awesome case mods I have ever seen. He's used carbon fiber to great effect in conjunction with lots of super-bright LEDs... although I'm not sure if I like the LEDs, they look a bit headache-inducing!
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Projectors Made From Trash Deliver HD Quality Video
Some crazy people are making their own projectors from scrapped parts: modified 8" LCD screens from cheap DVD players, chunky power converters, circuitry salvaged from dead AV equipment and hundreds of LEDs put together to create powerful lamps. The result are high-definition ghetto machines capable of delivering good images from trash.
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