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Kirby Winson spent years building the Vanedelic, turning a 2023 Mercedes Sprinter 170 AWD into a 24 foot beast for dusty festivals or remote trails where most rigs fail.
For nearly 40 years, the Casio F-91W has been a global standard, with its boxy resin case and 7 segment LCD display representing simple reliability. It costs around $20 and tells the time, counts seconds and glows in the dark. But in a world of smartwatches that buzz with notifications and fitness data, the F-91W can feel ancient. Enter the Ollee Watch One, a brilliant hack that replaces the F-91W’s original circuit board with one full of modern features.
A dump truck, or tip truck in Australia, isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a tiny home. It’s a workhorse, designed to move dirt and tools, not to live in. Steve and Jade, a creative couple from Australia, have turned this industrial beast into a tiny, useful and just beautiful tiny house. Their design is a work of genius, measuring only 8 square meters (86 square feet).
A group of Vietnamese tuners called NHET TV has turned a 1990s Nissan Cefiro into a stunning copy of the Lamborghini Revuelto. This is a labor of love that requires skill, patience and being able to see potential where others see trash.
A vape that runs DOOM? Sounds like a fever dream from a tech enthusiast’s late night Reddit scroll, but Aaron Christophel made it real with the PIXO Aspire, a $35 vaping kit that’s more than just a nicotine delivery system. This tiny device, with its 323×173 pixel touchscreen and Puya PY32F403XC microcontroller based on a Cortex-M4 core, can almost run DOOM natively.
James Channel is known for bringing back retro tech and his latest project is a fever dream for gamers who miss the early 2000s. He’s built a portable Xbox, a handheld version of Microsoft’s massive first-gen console, using ingenuity, spare parts and a whole lot of hot glue.
A laptop keyboard can make or break the user experience. For inventor Flurples, the Framework 13’s membrane keyboard felt like a compromise, a squishy afterthought in an otherwise great machine. Instead of giving up, he started on a big project to rebuild the laptop from the ground up, and created a custom version called the Campus.
A YouTuber named TERA has taken the PlayStation 5, Sony’s behemoth of a home console, and shrunk it down to something you can fit in a backpack. This isn’t the PlayStation Portal, a streaming device that relies on remote play. This is a full PS5, reimagined as a portable machine.
Super Mario Bros. Remastered has just been released on PC and it’s a fan made project that feels like a full blown celebration of Mario’s 1985 debut. Available for free on Windows, Linux and even Steam Deck, the game requires an original NES ROM to run, a clever move to sidestep legal trouble from Nintendo’s watchful eye, or so the dev thinks.