Check out this nice guitar made by Dave. The guitar is comprised of a Nintendo Entertainment System console, with a Nintendo cartridge for the headstock and other Nintendo details all around. Nice work, Dave. Watch the video, and check out Dave playing the Super Mario Bros. theme song.
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This video by conquerearth shows a method for controlling Super Mario Bros. (in an emulator) with a theremin. This is quite an interesting idea and seems to work well. The sound from the theremin is split into its frequency and amplitude components in real time, which are then mapped to values in a linear scale representing [...]
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Here’s a great little hack by Alan Parekh at Hacked Gadgets. It involves using a USB flash drive and tapping into the LED activity light to add a mechanical quality to the read/write access. Click here to watch the video
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Check out the awesome mod by James Haskin. He took a Korg Kaossilator and put it inside a Guitar Hero guitar. Great job, James! Instructions: How to make a Korg Kaossilator Guitar Click here to watch the video
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Johan Larsby built a keytar which he’s dubbed the DIYtar. He has a couple videos demoing the DIYtar and some more details at his site. He even built in a Guitar Hero mode. \m/ [via Make]
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The iPhone Dev-Team has finally come up with a iPhone 3G unlock codenamed “yellowsn0w”. Here are some details from the Dev-Team website: * The target release date for the unlock is New Year’s Eve 2008. * This unlock method is available to iPhone 3Gs that have 2.11.07 baseband or [...]
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Ben’s latest creation is an Xbox 360 portable. This thing is pretty cool, but doesn’t appear to be as “portable” as some of his other projects. Still it’s nice to be able carry around your console without having to search for a tv to connect it to when you need your next Gears of War [...]
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Deldotb managed to install a touchscreen in his Dell Inspiron Mini 9, but in doing so had to sacrifice one of the left-side USB ports. Nice mod! Read Deldotb’s post about adding the touchscreen.
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Check out this mod by wolphcry — the guts of a MacBook crammed into a Macally G-S350SUA external hard drive case. This all started when wolphcry received a 13-inch MacBook that was the victim of water damage. After some testing, he found that the motherboard was still good, but the LCD and some other parts [...]
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What could be better than a Super Nintendo put to use as an alarm clock? Well, maybe a Super Nintendo alarm clock that plays video game theme songs. Until someone makes one of those, check out aaronmavrinac’s SNES alarm clock hack below.
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