Aug 26

Mass Effect’s M8 Avenger rifle brought to exquisitely detailed life

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Harrison Krix understands if you don’t remember his name. After all, your mind can’t be expected to retain information when you’ve just seen the spectacular Portal gun and Daft Punk helmet the man has already authored. Latest on his hitlist is an homage to the awesomeness that is Mass Effect. Employing mostly leftover bits from previous projects and $28’s worth of new materials, Harrison set about the task of recreating Commander Shepard’s trusty assault rifle. The source will delight your eyeballs with a litany of pictures and build details, though our major question remains unanswered — does it use armor-piercing, incendiary, or shredder rounds?

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Mass Effect’s M8 Avenger rifle brought to exquisitely detailed life originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 24

Homemade Fallout 3 plasma rifle makes our post-apocalyptic future seem less bleak

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The A3-21 Plasma Rifle is quite the little devastator in Fallout 3 and it doesn’t look half bad in the so-called real world either. Lovingly pieced together by one Ryan Palser, this homebrewed replica (the lower of the two in the image above) took five months to complete and involved the enrollment of his wife’s painting skills for the weathering job. The final result is enough to convince us that Fallout would be well served by a movie adaptation, if only so we can see more of these retro-futuristic rifles get their shot at corporeality. You can scope out one more image showing off the lights inside the rifle after the break, but only if you promise to hit up Ryan’s Flickr account for the full set.

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Aug 24

Dell Streak procures a hacked-up mini USB adapter, gets friendly with your dusty cables

Posted in: adapter, Android, cable, diy, hack, hacking, homebrew, mod, modding, streak, Today's Chili, usb, video

Even if you can look beyond the SIM lock and the aging Android 1.6 OS on the Dell Streak, there’s still one irksome problem: the lack of a mini or micro-USB port (Dell clearly missed the USB party last summer). Dissatisfied with this state of affairs, John from Linux Slate decided to build an adapter for his tabletphone’s dock connector, which he confirmed to be PDMI instead of a proprietary design. The procedure was simple: John cut up his Streak’s cable plug, soldered a mini USB socket onto the board, and housed the new assembly within the Streak’s cable clip. Voilà! Until third-party USB-to-PDMI cables start to show up in the stores, it’s either this mod or cough up $20 for a spare cable from Dell. See the adapter in action after the break.

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Aug 06

Token multitouch screen shows us the future of DJing, today (video)

Posted in: concept, diy, homebrew, multitouch, projector, Today's Chili, touch, touchscreen, video


Think you know multitouch surfaces? Think again. We’ve just come across a video demo of the Token multitouch, erm, pedestal, which seems to have come straight from the future. A clear sheet of glass that beams out video from your computer and accepts touch inputs in return, the Token concept has been designed by a chap named Rodrigo hailing out of Chile. We know it uses a rear projector for its video, but other construction details are scarce at this point; what’s really special here, however, is the way he combines it with a Traktor Pro controller titled Emulator, turning a few intelligent finger swipes into a kickass light-and-sound show. See it on video after the break.

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Jul 28

UK bans R4 cards, makes Nintendo DS pirating ‘double illegal’

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While us Yankees are celebrating the one small victory for all that’s right and good represented by the recent DMCA jailbreak exception, things are looking a little bleaker for UK gadget-heads this afternoon. London’s High Court has ruled that R4 cards, which are used by homebrewers and the occasional no-goodnik game pirate to circumvent security on the Nintendo DS, cannot be sold, advertised, or imported into the UK. According to Joystiq, Nintendo claims they’ve seized over 100,000 R4 devices in the country since 2009. When asked for a comment, the Queen was all like, “What?”

UK bans R4 cards, makes Nintendo DS pirating ‘double illegal’ originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 19

Transformable Wall-E gets recreated with some love, Lego and DIY skills (video)

Posted in: diy, homebrew, lego, mod, modding, remote control, RemoteControl, robot, Today's Chili, video

Sure, you’ll have seen Lego-based Wall-E imitators before, but few recreate both the cuteness and the basic functionality of the drone quite like this one here. Programmed using Lego Mindstorms, this adorable little creation can transform itself into a box (like the real Wall-E!), pick up and carry objects, look up and down, and even produce and respond to sounds. It can be controlled remotely or left to do things by itself. Follow the break to see it on video.

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Jul 01

iPhone 4 gets a $1 alternative to pricey Bumpers

Posted in: Apple, case, diy, homebrew, iPhone, mod, modding, Today's Chili

If you ask us, Apple should be giving away free bumpers, lollipops, and anything else it can think of to keep its otherwise loyal followers from revolting. But the Great Bitten One isn’t doing any one of those things, and most of us are stuck either having to pony up $30 for the official salvation from self-inflicted signal harm or looking out to the grey markets. Entering this morose situation with a bit of ingenuity is Oliver Nelson, who alerts us to the fact that rubber wristbands of the sort your favorite cyclist wears are apparently an almost perfect fit when stretched around the 4’s antennae. He advises that a 1.125-inch long by 0.125-inch wide incision (into the unstretched band) is necessary to keep the 30-pin port and speakers open, but otherwise it seems like a pretty effortless and dirt cheap way to avoid all this drama.

iPhone 4 gets a $1 alternative to pricey Bumpers originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 28

iPad arcade cabinet brings April Fools’ joke to life (video)

Posted in: Apple, apple ipad, AppleIpad, gaming, hack, hacking, homebrew, ipad, mod, modding, Today's Chili, video

Nope, this isn’t the first iPad mod you’ll have seen, but it’s likely to be the biggest crowd pleaser yet. Inspired by the iCade cabinet — an April Fools’ joke that had most of us asking where we could buy one — this really real arcade cabinet integrates Apple’s slate, hooks it up to a set of old school controls, and lets users go to town with such old timer classics as Mr. Do! It’s still in prototype form, hence the boxy exterior, but the action on screen is looking as good as you’d expect. See it on video after the break.

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Jun 17

Droid made to work with iPod docks using unholy homemade adapter

Posted in: diy, droid, hack, hacking, homebrew, ipod, ipod dock, IpodDock, mod, modding, moto, motorola, Today's Chili

What, our ultra-special Droid dock‘s not enough for you? There’s now another way to avoid buying Motorola’s official accessories, though this one’s a bit more blasphemous. Thijs Bosschert over in the Netherlands has put together a fully fledged adapter for his Milestone (aka Droid European Edition), which allows it to interface with docks designed for iPods and iPhones. He’s done it using mostly parts he had lying around — and a well-placed magnet, of course — though he had to resort to using the 3.5mm headphone jack to extract audio from the device. The result might not look like a million bucks, but then it didn’t cost that much either. See more pictures and Thijs’ full how-to guide at the source.

Droid made to work with iPod docks using unholy homemade adapter originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 27

iPad wall mounts take a turn for the crazier (video)

Posted in: Apple, apple ipad, AppleIpad, diy, homebrew, ipad, Today's Chili, video

Wall mounts have been around since forever and a day, but let’s be honest, they’ve never had something quite like an iPad to cling on to. And now a couple of enthusiastic tablet users have gone and concocted their own homemade articulating display stands, showing how easily it can be done. Al forwards the gallery of pics below, telling us he only had to buy a standard VESA TV mount and an iPad case (costing around $40 in total), screw the two together, and boom, his son had an iPad “bed mount.” Alternatively, if you’re after a more sophisticated solution, you’ll want to see dim3m’s video after the break, showing how he put together the above speaker-enriched platform. Go ahead, there’s a banging soundtrack too.

[Thanks, Al and dim3m]

Gallery: DIY iPad wall mount

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iPad wall mounts take a turn for the crazier (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 May 2010 08:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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