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DIY PSP Laptop

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jun 5th 2009 No Comments

The PSP Go! is shaping up to be great, but it doesn’t have a full QWERTY keyboard, does it.  Acidmods forum member folklord36’s PSP Laptop does, though, courtesy of an Xbox Chat Pad, together with relocated speakers, LED lighting and more.

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There’s little that excites us more than a DIY synth, but slapping an arcade-style joystick onto a fuzzy, glitchy, beeping analog monster practically pushes us over the edge.  Synth-master Unearthed Circuits has combined four oscillators with various levels of pitch adjustment and come up with Drone Machine; the joystick individually mutes or activates each one.

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Touchscreen MacBook conversions aren’t new, and in fact if you’ve got the money then we’ll be the first to say that the Axiotron ModBook is a great off-the-shelf OS X tablet.  If, though, you don’t have the money and you want the accuracy of a Wacom active digitizer, you might have to replicate Wei’s iTab project: merging a Wacom Intuos tablet with a first-gen 1.83GHz MacBook.

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Taking something very familiar and twisting it into something new, this “Rubik’s Cube Font Generator” adapts the swiveling, rotating form-factor of the classic puzzle and changes it into a printing stamp.  The handiwork of Jas Bhachu of the Liverpool School of Art & Design, the cube has rubber stamp impressions on four of its sides, and by twisting it through different orientations can create a variety of characters.

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Liquid-Cooled Desk PC mod

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, May 20th 2009 No Comments

Desk PC mods are relatively rare, but not unseen, but they generally aim to discretely hide the computer into the furniture.  Popular Mechanics’ version, however, puts everything very much on show: a water-cooled Intel quad-core PC sandwiched inside clear acrylic and bolted to a custom aluminum frame.

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If you’ve ever wanted to use your iPhone as a projector, but are too cheap to shell out for a pico-projector like the AAXA P1, perhaps this DIY system is for you.  What you gain in price, you lose in flexibility, however; the system uses 35 individual laser pointers to recreate any bitmap font. 

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It seems like DIY robots are gaining momentum, as more low-cost and straightforward controllers become available.  Latest is this wireless-equipped model, based on the MAKE Controller and using a Logitech wireless ethernet bridge actually intended to get an Xbox console online.

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“If I only had a brain” sang the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz, and while we’re not suggesting the film would’ve tied up one of its plotlines a whole lot quicker had Steve Jobs & co been around, using an iPod touch as a brain doesn’t seem to have done this little Japanese robot any harm.  Named Robochan by its creator, it’s a combination of the Kondo KHR-2HV robot kit and Apple’s touchscreen PMP.

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We’ve seen automated guns and remote-control weapons here on SlashGear before, but this Nerf Sentry Gun is particularly slick.  Designed and created by Jason Wright and Jeremy Blum as part of their robotics class at Cornell, the sentry uses a webcam to authenticate ID badges; if your name isn’t on the list then, like Finland in Eurovision 2009, you’re shot down.

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ASUS’ Eee PC T91 convertible touchscreen netbook has cleared the FCC, and the team there have done their usual job of stripping the hardware down to its more wirelessly-active components and taking fuzzy photos of each.  It’s heaven for would-be T91 upgraders, of course, as it allows them to start making a list of possible tweaks.

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