Tag Archive for 'diy'
For anybody wanting to jab rather than click on their iMac, Troll Touch offer a DIY touchscreen kit that adds a finger-sensitive layer to the front of the slick desktop system. Available for both 20 and 24-inch iMacs, the new touch panels join a range that already caters for Apple’s laptops and Cinema Displays.
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If you’re tired of your scanner just doing its job and not even bothering to look cool you might check out this DIY project. Let’s face it, Legos are the about as bad ass as you can get, so a scanner made almost entirely out of Lego bricks is perfect.
If you’re just itching to get your art out there and on some kind of a product, these little Alba Make Art Clocks are a nice chance. Plus for those without artistic ability you can pick up unique looking clocks without having any artistic skill.
They had already released the clocks with art already on [...]
If you’ve been going all mushy in the head every time you see a preview for Wall-E then you’re in luck, now you can just build your own. No need for that pesky human companionship any longer.
The news that ASUS is considering a touchscreen version of the Eee PC seemed like a pretty natural progression, but if you’re unwilling to wait until the official EeeTablet then this DIY kit seems the cheapest way so far to add touch functionality to the 7-inch notebook. Consisting of the touch panel itself, together with a controller [...]
Rock Band has easily become one of my favorite games, which I tend to play a lot. I’ll switch out between rocking the guitar, drums and vocals, however, I feel bad that those without full use of their legs can’t use the drums. Thankfully someone has created an awesome mod that will allow anyone to [...]
As solid-state drives gain popularity, we’ve seen a few products that offer a way to retro-fit flash-based storage to your notebook, usually in the form of an adaptor that allows you to plug one or more Compact Flash cards into a traditional hard-drive socket. Steve from UMPC Portal has taken the plunge and used a Ably-Tech PA-CF18Z [...]
These DIY batgoggles may have a well-intentioned purpose - to teach the principles of echo-location to kids visiting a science center - but they also could make midnight paintballing a whole lot more interesting (and/or painful). Bleeping angrily whenever an object or person is in front of you, they’re part of Suneth S. Attygalle’s “Dynamic User-centered Research [...]
If you’re addicted to your pudding or yogurt and are constantly tossing out the plastic containers, you might consider turning them into a lampshade. Kianee did exactly that, creating this very retro lampshade.
If you have an old blender that is no longer working and you enjoy quirky lighting, this DIY project might be something to try out. This would be especially cool if you managed to snag a slightly more retro blender off of eBay or if you knew someone with one just lying around.
