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DIY Gadgets

Making your own or hacking gadgets can be great fun, hear we share the various DIY gadget projects that we’ve found or done.

More ways to recycle your NES controller

September 5th, 2007 by Edwin in DIY Gadgets, Gaming Gadgets

nes-coinpurse.jpgSince the NES sold like a gazillion units back in the 80s, it makes perfect sense to have even more controllers lying around, waiting to be recycled (or suffer a different fate). For those with a penchant for DIY items, why not turn this into a coin purse as depicted here? The NES controller has also been lined with an adorable looking fabric. You should be able to find plenty of such NES controllers on eBay before you embark on this project. Would be nice to see this compartmentalized inside to store DS cards instead.

Source: DS Fanboy

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Asthma patients get welcome relief

August 22nd, 2007 by Edwin in DIY Gadgets, Home Gadgets

spacer-asthma.jpgAsthma patients can be a pretty fragile bunch, and in poorer countries, these people rarely have the opportunity nor purchasing power to pick up a “spacer” that actually creates an air chamber right in front of the mouth, whereby the inhaler will discharge its medicine for the patient to breathe it in easily. These devices could cost around $50 which is definitely out of reach for the destitute, but thankfully brilliant folks from Stanford University’s Design School along with the School of Medicine managed to come up with their own homebrew solution - using the origami concept to build your very own spacer out of paper. The price to pay? Less than a measly quarter.

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Icontech unveils Electric Inflatable Watercraft

August 22nd, 2007 by Edwin in DIY Gadgets, Sport, Vehicle Gadgets

icontech.jpgSummer is the perfect time to engage in outdoor activity, enabling you to witness the full glory of the sun. What better way than to spend it around nature? Some people might prefer to head for the hills (in a positive manner, of course) while others prefer to spend a quiet day by the lake, waiting for the fish to bite. For those who love to engage in water activities, jet skis are definitely fun, but wait till you check out the Electric Inflatable Watercraft from Icontech. This vehicle is basically a battery powered, sit down product that resembles a jet ski, and is capable of achieving top speeds of 10kmh, making it a viable (and affordable) alternative to those who are just starting out in the wild, wild world of water sports.

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New Hack weds the XBox 360 and a Wii Remote Controller

August 10th, 2007 by James in Conceptual Gadgets, DIY Gadgets, Football Gadgets, Golf Gadgets, Miscellaneous Gadgets, PC Gadgets, Tech News, Toys, Wacky Gadgets

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Taking Halo or Call to Duty to a whole new level, Hackers have created an Wii IR Remote sensor and driver to port the trademarked remote setup to the Xbox 360. This latest hack turns the epic video game and console into a full fledged killing simulator.

Course, that’s not all the Xbox is good for. There’s sports games like Madden NFL, MLB Baseball or Tiger Woods Golf, there’s even hack and slash games like The Elder Scrolls. Imagine firing a phaser for the latest Star Trek Legacy game, or Battling for Middle Earth in The Lord of the Rings (can we virtually put “my precious on?”), the possibilities are endless (especially when you have this hero game pack which let’s you strap on the sword and shield).
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NES controller now controls cursor

August 10th, 2007 by Edwin in DIY Gadgets, Gaming Gadgets

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What a change for the once-mighty NES controller, where it used to control Mario and Samus who saved their respective worlds, all the controller does now is control the cursor on your computer display (not to mention accelerating your path towards RSI due to its obviously unergonomic nature). This DIY project replaces the innards of a NES controller with that of an optical mouse, so you’ll have to invest a fair bit and have a decent amount of technical know-how before embarking upon this project. Definitely one of the fanboys.

Product Page via Geekologie

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Super Mario Subwoofer

July 20th, 2007 by Edwin in Audio/Video Gadgets, DIY Gadgets, Electronic Gadgets

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Man, Michael Karpinski must be having some of those mushrooms that Mario thrives on when he created this Super Mario Subwoofer from scratch. Michael has taken the trouble to match the classic “question mark” brick from the Super Mario series of games, complete with a tiny stuffed Yoshi to complete the look. Whenever the volume gets cranked up, you can expect little Yoshi to experience a strange reverberation he never felt before! Don’t expect to purchase this as it is a custom, D.I.Y. job.

Source: Technabob

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Space Invaders used to tell time

July 17th, 2007 by Edwin in DIY Gadgets, Electronic Gadgets, Gaming Gadgets

space-invaders-clock.jpgElectronics enthusiast Jason Hickner has gone retro by conjuring up this cool clock that tells the time via a game of Space Invaders. All he needed was an old Sony portable TV and a circuit that generates the video to create the game. To tell the time, each extra life shows the hours, while every alien represents one minute. For those who are too busy to count aliens at a glance, the last four digits of the high score will also do the trick.

Source: MAKE

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Create your own 8-bit games

June 30th, 2007 by Mike in DIY Gadgets, Gaming Gadgets

Hydra console dev kit
For you to think the Hydra Console Game Dev Kit is incredibly awesome (which it is), you have to be real geek. The reason I say you need to be a geek is because this dev kit lets you create your very own 8-Bit video games, and by create I don’t mean make a little hello word program that flashes different colors, you do all sorts of programming stuff.
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