DIY
By Roland Hutchinson on Monday 19th July 2010 8:36 am in DIY, iPad
The search for the prefect iPad stand continues, we have already seen Julian’s cool homemade Pencil iPad stand, and now Dylan Tweney and Charlie Sorrel from Wired have come up with another cool iPad stand using a Joby Gorillapod.
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By Glenn Santos on Saturday 17th July 2010 4:47 pm in DIY, Geeky Toys
The gist of this new product from Tamiya, best known for its super cool model race cars, is a calling card whose content can be disassembled and rebuilt into whatever machine you fancy…like a battleship.
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By Roland Hutchinson on Wednesday 14th July 2010 7:40 am in DIY, iPad
Last week Julian made a cool stand for his iPad using 6 pencils and four rubber bands, it became very popular and we have received quite a few emails from our readers with their own version of the Pencil
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By Julian Horsey on Tuesday 13th July 2010 12:50 pm in Cameras, Design, DIY
If you need a methods of transferring your old negatives into a digital format Claus Thiim has a great solution using a DSLR camera and a few paper toilet tubes.
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By Shane McGlaun on Monday 12th July 2010 5:13 pm in DIY
There are lots of chess players out there who only play online. These folks tend to play with people all around the world. Some prefer the feel of real world chess pieces to the virtual parts though. A new
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By Glenn Santos on Sunday 11th July 2010 3:11 pm in DIY, Mods, PC Hardware
There’s certainly a lot of folks out there who have dedicated a slice of their life to getting Mac OS X running on non-Apple hardware. It’s complicated but sure gives you that endorphin rush after you complete it. Not
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By Shane McGlaun on Friday 9th July 2010 4:10 pm in Cameras, DIY
I am sure there are many people out there who love to take pictures that would be happy to have their own Leica camera. The catch is that those fancy and retro looking Lecia cameras can run into the
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By Roland Hutchinson on Friday 9th July 2010 9:53 am in Design, DIY
Here is a fun lamp for your geeky apartment, and you can easily make one yourself for about $5, the DIY Book Lamp. The DIY Book Lamp is pretty simple to make, yet it looks really cool, and would
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By Julian Horsey on Thursday 8th July 2010 4:47 pm in DIY, Gadgets, Gaming, Mods
Retrovicio Forums member pocket_lucho has recreated a mini Daytona Arcade Cabinet. The build uses a mini ATX motherboard ZOTAC 330, 2GB ram, Wi-fi, an 8″ VGA screen, four speakers, 4-speed gearshift, illuminated buttons and digital metal pedals. The Mini
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By Julian Horsey on Thursday 8th July 2010 1:23 pm in Design, DIY, Gadgets, Mods
We’ve featured a number of different concept and production electric bikes here on Geeky Gadgets but this electric DIY mod by Jennifer Holt is fantastic. Using a 48v motor powered by a homemade battery pack made up of a
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By Julian Horsey on Wednesday 7th July 2010 2:01 pm in Apple News, DIY, Features, iPad
Some of our readers will remember the Pencil iPhone stand that I made last year, I have had my iPad for a few weeks now and I thought it was about time to create a similar stand for the
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By Julian Horsey on Tuesday 6th July 2010 4:11 pm in Design, DIY, Geeky
The picture below might well look like a frame from the Iron Man 2 movie but in fact its a picture of Colorodan Anthony Le wearing his $4,000 homemade Iron Man 2 costume of War Machine. Anthony Le, 25,
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