Archive for the 'DIY' Category

I think my dreams have just come true. A cute girl playing games on a huge ass NES controller? Why does this never happen at my house? The NES Coffee Table can actually be used as a controller during game play, and it also provides excellent space for storing away all of your gaming gear.

[The Brick]

I was never much of a Duck Hunt fan. That damn dog just laughed at me whenever I missed a shot. But anything Nintendo that is also a lamp is all good in my book. Here’s a qoute from the Nintendo Goddess who made it:

“A regular cartridge was too small a base, so I measured one and made a 1.5 scale replica out of cardboard, and screwed the gun to it. I weighted it with stones, and then tackled the shade.

I picked up a $2 shade at the re-store, a pack of fun foam, and voila! After hours and hours of cutting pixellated shapes, I was done! A little dab of glue to secure the shade, and… ta dah!”

Girls devoting their time and energy to all things Nintendo please me… She’s welcome here at PopTherapy anytime. Maybe we can make a Mega-man lamp together, then hump to an NES game theme.

It’s a dream of mine.

[NWFB]

Check out this tiny Super Nintendo papercraft console. It was created by Chilean papercrafter ryo007, and even has a pair of even smaller controllers AND a set of game cartridges. If you want to make one yourself, ryo has the cut-out diagrams on DeviantArt.

ryo is obviously a master Jedi of papercraft. I salute you, fellow geek.

I tried to make one of these one time and it ended in a bloody mess of paper cuts. So when my neighbor saw me working with scissors with a blood stained shirt, he was nice enough to make a phone call. The cops busted in the door and questioned my sanity when they saw the project. When they saw all my magazines with the letters cut out and my wall devoted to Princess Peach porn and Paris Hilton, they had a few questions for me.

[Technabob] VIA [Slipperybrick]

Time to get your geek on.

• Forget the honey-do list for one weekend. What could be a better use of that new Makita belt sander than the power tool drag races? “Blown Big-Block Belt Sanders . . .Nitro Burning Funny-Saws. . .Wheel Standin’ Weed Wackers…” More pictures and information here.
• The record to solve a Rubik’s cube is 9.18 seconds. Me? I’ve never even come close to solving that thing. Maybe I need this DIY kit to teach me how to become a speed cuber.
• This DIY Sega arcade cabinet is a geek’s dream. It has a large Sony display on top, a car audio system built in, and it houses not only his PC, but a PS3, and Xbox 360 as well.

Every geek I know has a broken console or two lying around. Every geek I know also thinks he can play guitar. And maybe they can, but I’ll still kick their sorry asses in Smash Bros. Why not build a real working guitar using some of your old consoles, like these guys did? How about a Dreamcast guitar or one made out of a Nintendo Famicom?

Check out some cool images below.
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Bead curtains are not just for 1960’s hippie dens anymore. These are made by artist Devorah Sperber. Kind of like pixel-art in 3D, she slides tens of thousands of beads onto threads to create these detailed geek portraits. This is some retro cool geek awesomeness right here.

Some of her works include the holodeck door, Enterprise-D’s bridge, and her “beaming down” series, which looks like the “real” special effect.

More images below.
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Hollywood loves to crank out cookie cutter celebs. Some months blonde hair and blue eyes are in, other months they might all look like Angelina Jolie. It’s enough to make you want to create your own celeb. That’s just what one person has actually done, using photoshop to merge all the celebrities including Catherine Zeta-Jones, Keira Knightly, Angelina Jolie and Charlize Theron, into one super celebrity.

What do you think?

[TechChee]

Forget Paper Mario. Paper C-3PO is awesome. Holy Tyra shitting her pants Batman! Who knew you could do so much with paper. It turns out that paper is totally awesome and sometimes trees must die to bring us super-coolness.

Check out K-3PO, C-3PO’s albino brother, after the jump. As well as Zelda.
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Blu-Ray Laser Phaser! - video powered by Metacafe

First off, this guy’s hypnotic voice makes me feel like Data himself is explaining things. Basically, you just install a Blu-Ray laser into a Star Trek phaser gun and you have a shiny new geek toy. It costs less than $100 to build, and possibly your eyesight.

I’m gonna try this myself over the weekend. If you don’t see any updates on Monday, it’s because I haven’t seen anything since Saturday.

[Blu-Ray Phaser] VIA [Geekologie]

Here’s a set of cool, slightly odd and creepy Star Wars dolls featuring Chewbacca, C-3PO, a Clone Trooper and some others. Made by My Paper Crane.

Very crafty indeed and they look easy to make. Great project for DIY enthusiasts who love all things Star Wars.

[MyPaperCrane] VIA [Geek Alerts]