All the stories tagged with: diy
Tacit haptic wrist rangefinder turns you into a human bat
02/01/2012, Ever wished you were able to live out the experiences of a bat, or even the superhero Daredevil, who gets around through the clever use of ultrasonics? Steve Hoefer’s prototype Tacit haptic wrist rangefinder does just that, where you extend [...]
Digital D&D dice roller in fur-lined barbarian forearm bracer
02/01/2012, Talk about taking your dice and paper RPG seriously – if you are going to dress up for each session, then those of you who started off as a barbarian would definitely fall in love with this painstakingly done up [...]
NES controller plays iCade games on the iPad
01/17/2012, If you love retro gaming on your iPad, you’ve probably wished for a physical controller to play games with instead using the touchscreen on the tablet. And if you have, what better way to do it than to use some [...]
Cardboard robot looks cool and is eco-friendly
01/10/2012, Have you ever seen a robot made from cardboard? Before today, neither have I, and if you’re curious to what a moving creation made from cardboard would look like, you’re in luck. A designer named Mike Estee recently came up [...]
Sony Vaio F series laptop gets the steampunk treatment
01/04/2012, If you’re a fan of “steampunk” designs and you’re into modding your laptops, you might want to check out this sweet looking case mod from John “Wilhem” Dunn. The folks over at Sony recently invited him to talk about a [...]
Kitty Twitty lets your cat tweet
01/03/2012, Don’t you think that it is rather ironic for Twitter, a brand that has a bird for its mascot, to be used by a cat? Most of the time, we see cats in comics and cartoons sporting a couple of [...]
Ewen the Cheerlight robot reacts to tweets about colors
12/27/2011, A robot creator has managed to create a special robot named Ewen, that reacts to tweets about colors. Whenever a tweet is sent to the @cheerlights account, the robot reads it, and depending on the color on the tweet – [...]
DIY solar panel maker targets Kenya in charity effort
12/23/2011, Director of KnowYourPlanet, Mark Kragh, runs a business that resells solar panels to small and growing businesses as well as hobbyists, but making money is not his ultimate aim in life. In fact, he has a heart for Kenyans, making [...]
USB Biofeedback Game Controller
12/16/2011, Want to flex your muscles, and I mean that literally, when it comes to playing video games the next time around? That can be achieved with the USB Biofeedback Game Controller, where this project will showcase the power of the [...]
Xbox 360 turned into an aquarium
12/14/2011, If you’ve got a spare Xbox 360 console lying around the house (possibly due to RROD?), and it’s just collecting dust, why not make something useful out of it? Like turn it into an aquarium. And that’s what the folks [...]
Learn to make a fire-breathing pony
12/08/2011, If you’ve got a toy pony lying around the house and you’ve ever thought to yourself, “I wish it could shoot fire out of its nostrils” – you’re in luck. An Instructables user named lvl_joe made a fire-breathing pony earlier [...]
Siri used to watch videos on Plex
11/28/2011, We’ve seen Siri used to start your car, and now it looks like we’ve got another use for Apple’s famous voice-controlled assistant. A developer has managed to get the Siri Proxy working with a Plex command line interface to basically [...]
Create your own “privacy monitor”
11/25/2011, If you’ve got a spare LCD monitor lying around and you’re comfortable enough to disassemble electronics, you can turn it into a pretty cool privacy monitor. An electrical engineer who met the aforementioned requirements recently turned the LCD monitor into [...]
