Monday, March 11, 2013 - 6:02pm
Why have three separate consoles when you can have a single giant one? Modder extraordinaire Ben Heck is building exactly that.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 8:01am
Ben Heck is always up to something, isn't he? This time the modification maestro has created a BASIC pocket computer from an Xbox 360 Chatpad keyboard, an Arduino Uno and an LCD display — a Hitachi HD 44780. It's a total blast from the past.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 3:31pm
Ben Heck has plenty of experience turning game consoles into laptops — hell, this isn't even his first time doing it to the PlayStation 3. This time time, however, it's blue! Heck's PlayStation laptop comes equipped with a 17-inch, 720p...
Monday, April 26, 2010 - 4:53am
How far down can you shrink a Nintendo 64? This far, apparently. A modder who goes by the name Bacteria has unveiled the iNto64, his rescaled version of Nintendo's classic console. The project took him four months to complete, and...
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 5:12am
Modders really do stuff video game consoles into the darndest things. Case in point: this Millennium Falcon toy is hiding the short-lived, much-loved Sega Dreamcast. User "Pezzapoo" of the Ben Heck forums says it's a match made in heaven: As...
Friday, September 18, 2009 - 12:04am
The skinny little rider you see perched atop the back seat of this tandem is Joules, robot cyclist extraordinaire. He's the creation of a guy called Chris who, challenged by his son to create an electric tandem that worked via...
Thursday, September 17, 2009 - 1:08pm
A user by the name of Gup over at the TechPowerup forums has whipped up one of the most impressive Stargate case mods we've seen 'round these parts. It's modeled after a Goa'uld Ha'tak starship from the series, and features...
Monday, June 15, 2009 - 3:03am
Straight from the bestselling book 1001 Things to Do with a Theremin* comes this dinky little idea: hooking up a Theremin to a PC and playing Mario on it. The genius behind the Mario-Theremin hookup: Modding the Theremin to make...
