Have you always fancied building your own R2-D2? One clever modder called Victor has made his own R2-D2 replica which looks exactly like the original R2-D2, and he has compiled a guide of the complete build which might give you an idea on how to build you own.
We have seen quite a few different game console mods here at Geeky Gadgets, the latest ones combines a Dreamcast and a kids toy, the Deamcast Millennium Falcon Mod.
The guys over at Crabfu have created a fun radio controlled toy that uses a combination of new and old technology, the RC Live Steam Tank.
The RC Live Steam Tank works with a standard remote control that you will see on many of the RC toys available, but instead of being powered by batteries the tank is powered by steam.
Remote Controlled Steam Powered Tank
Musician Yoshi Akai has created a cool music sequencer using Lego, the music sequencer uses three dimensional Lego structures to emulate a three chanel, eight step sequencer.
When a new Lego piece is added to the sequencer a new sound is added in, check out the video of it in action below.
Update: 10th March 2010
It turns out that the coffee powered car hasn’t yet made the trip from London to Manchester, this is happening tomorrow, and the car actually runs on used coffee grounds, so I guess it wouldn’t be all that expensive to run after all.
The Car-puccino is a car that runs entirely on coffee, it was built by the team from the BBC science program ‘Bang Goes The Theory‘, using an old Volkswagen Scirocco from 1988, which was bought for £400.
The car runs completely on coffee granules, the granules are out into a gas cylinder and then heated to 700c in a charcoal fire which makes the coffee break down into hydrogen and carbon monoxide.
Some of our readers will remember the Monochron Pong Clock that we featured on Geeky Gadgets last week. Well it seems there is now an ever cooler version of this clock thanks to Dataman who modded the original clock into this cool Space Invaders clock.
Dataman changed the firmware on the original clock, and created this awesome Space Invaders clock.
This Wii laptop mod by OMGPedoBear is constructed from expanded PVC sheets and has a massive 17″ LCD monitor screen fitted. Extra fans had to be added to keep the Wii console cool in such a flat case.
Together with a full QWERTY keyboard and DVD drive of course. Wii games are loaded upside down from the front. Check out the video of it in action after the jump.
The guys over at Macetech created a cool LED coffee table back in 2009, since then they have decided to give it a bit of an update, and the new version now features integration with Twitter.
You can control what is displayed on the Coffee table by formatting your tweet using some color codes and adding the hash tag #ledtable, the tweet will then change the colors displayed on the table.
We have seen quite a few cool PC mods here at Geeky Gadgets, but we haven’t seen that many mods that use an old PC to make something else, the guys over at Instructables have created an aquarium fro a dead PC.
They do point out that you have to be careful with this mod as it combines water with electricity, not a good idea if the two mix, and it might not be very good for the fish either.
Rubik’s Cube’s seem to be back in fashion at the moment, and modding them seem to be popular, the latest Rubik’s Cube mod is this fun Keyboard Key Rubik’s Cube.
It seems like a pretty easy one to make, all you need is a Rubik’s Cube and an old keyboard, the keyboard keys fit perfectly over the the Rubik’s cube squares.
We have seen quite a few different iPhone 3G and 3GS mods here at Geeky Gadgets, most of them are new housing for your iPhone covered in diamonds and gold and are going to set you back a fair amount of cash.
One iPhone owner, Martin Schrotz decided he didn’t like the plastic casing on the back of his iPhone 3GS so he set out to re-design it. Martin spent over three months coming up with the final version, he tried it aluminum but that didn’t work out so well, so he came up with this awesome titanium design.
Here is another cool mod for today, this one was made by the guys from Instructables, the Music LED Light Box.
The Music LED Light Box was made using some blue LEDs, a couple of transistors, some acrylic sheets and a few other things, check out the video of it in action below.
