Auto enthusiast Nathan Paykin purchased a 2006 Suzuki Swift for the bargain price of AU$500 (approximately US$350) and converted it into a full-size replica of the vintage Little Tikes Cozy Coupe toy vehicle that many children most likely played with. This classic red-and-yellow Cozy Coupe now appears as a real-life car that adults can drive, complete with flames.
This project takes regular door sensors and amps them up a few notches, providing a brilliant way to keep your smart house smart without having a single gadget attached to the frame. Dillan Stock of The Stock Pot got his hands on those cheap Aqara T1 touch sensors and decided to rebuild their housings from scratch, effectively stuffing everything inside the door and frame.
Sergii Gordieiev, the engineer behind “The Q,” is the mastermind behind some incredibly unique innovations, such as transforming regular bicycles into something entirely different. His new project involves disassembling a basic bike, removing the chain and derailleur, and replacing them with a chain composed of 3D printed gears. The end result is a stripped-down single-speeder that delivers power directly from the crank to the wheel, with no sign of chain slap or rattling worn chains.
Most people have never heard of Satisfactory, a factory-building game where you create massive industrial complexes on an exotic world, or MASSAGE-2(A-B)b to be more specific. Few people are aware of the Pioneers who drive the plot, and they wear helmets with those unique wide, tinted visors sporting a hexagonal overlay. Turning that in-game accessory into something wearable requires some major skills, such as molding unique plastic sheets and endless sanding.
YouTuber Rangelukaz is embarking on his most ambitious project ever. He is using Unity to completely recreate the 1994 Super Nintendo classic Donkey Kong Country. Every jump, roll, and slide is a precise duplicate of the original, down to the last frame.
A Smith-Corona electric typewriter lies on the workbench, its keys still holding the faint traces of decades of dried-up ink. Prototype opens the casing, removes the ribbon spools and side brackets, and meticulously disassembles this antique relic to create something completely new. There isn’t much space inside, with the original mechanism taking up about half of the volume, but the idea is to fit a powerful x86 gaming PC within while also preserving the typewriter’s trademark actions.
A little Japanese Kei truck has been turned into an electric vehicle and features a faux battery pack in the bed that resembles a giant cordless drill battery. Ron Grosinger, often known as Mr. G to his students, is a high school auto shop and welding teacher who spearheaded the modification of a 1999 Daihatsu Hijet with his students.
SEGA’s Dreamcast may have met an early demise, but the console’s legacy lives on among fans. Now, a small crew has ported Super Mario 64 to the console. That’s right, programmer jnmartin84 finished what mrneo240 started in 2020, resulting in a game based on the original and burned onto a CD-R for crisper visuals as well as richer sound.
PDFs have typically been used to store reports, contracts, and a plethora of tax forms, but now one of them can run a Nintendo 64 game. Simply load a 23.5-megabyte file in your browser and Super Mario 64 will launch, complete with a jumping plumber and a magnificent castle backdrop. Tobi, the developer behind this feat, converted a document viewer into a game console, but he was inspired by a previous project, the DOOM PDF.
Portable input devices are all about compact keyboards and mice that allow you to type as well as navigate on the move with your laptop or tablet, but let’s be honest, an iPhone normally goes unnoticed in this conversation… until one incredibly creative modder, KoStard, threw a wrench in the works.