DIY

Check out this awesome hand and wrist mounted DIY flame thrower. Designed and created by Everett Bradford’s his “Prometheus Device” is fashion on the X-mens Pyro ability to create fire from thin air. Everett’s device doesn’t do it quiet from thin air but its fantastic never the less.

Jason Marton over at hack weblog MetkuMods has created a unique PC inside a whisky bottle. Jason enjoys a little hacking and needed a small basic home server.

A Central Michigan University professor and Physicist Axel Mellinger has  spent nearly two years traveling  the world. Crossing South Africa, Texas and Michigan in a 26,000 miles world tour to obtain  individual photos to compile this massive 648 Mega Pixel image of the Milky Way as seen from Earth using the  3,000 individual photographs he collected in his [...]

If you have a  few hours spare this weekend perhaps you could try your hand at making this retro flash USB drive made from a couple of  old Rubik Cube squares.   This innovative little device took the maker about 3 days to complete. By lining up the square the USB connector appears in the front ready [...]

Check out this original wedding cake that has been designed to show the scene in Stars Wars were Luke it put inside a Tauntaun to keep him warm during an Ice Storm. This must me one of the most original wedding cakes I’ve ever scene and the cake has fantastic detailing. Including some lovely Tauntaun [...]

These iPhone costumes are going to take some beating this Halloween. Created from LCD TV’s and using car batteries for power. Unfortuantely the screens are not touch sensitive and the actual iPhones are mounted on the top of the  LCD screens which hetn display the content.  The whole custome weighs in at around 85lbs and [...]

Developed by the students at  Iwata-Yano Laboratory at the University of Tsukuba this ‘Media Vehicle’  is designed to be a the  personal virtual reality cocoon. Whilst inside you look at a spherical display and is supposed to allow users  move around both in the real world and a virtual  environment.

We’ve featured a number of innovative DIY iPhone stands here at Geeky Gadgets and this one is yet another simple and effective mod. If you have any old Mini DV tapes lying around then you already have a built iPhone standing waiting for action. Just open it up and drop in your iPhone.  I couldn’t resist [...]

Alan Parekh of Hacked Gadgets has created a industrial looking clock from wooden gears a PIC microcontroller and  a scavenged stepper motor. Check out the video after the jump.

Here is a useful accessory for you digital camera that you can make yourself, the DIY camera hand strap from the guys over at Photojojo.

Bewared this is not a straight forward and a pretty involved method of connection and requires a few uber hacking skills to complete from the look of it. But if you fancy giving it a go,  a guy at AwghBlog demonstrates how this  PS/2 keyboard to an iPhone connection works and how to set it [...]

We have featured a number of DIY iPhone cases here on Geeky Gadgets but Rabbitrampage has created a beautiful fantastically detailed Xbox 360 iPhone case. Which is available for $35 and the additional controller for $10 extra from Etsy