DIYs & Mods

A Tesla Christmas tree looks really awesome. We didn’t know what we were missing until today, but holy crap. It’s awesome! Using the power of Tesla coils, you too can make your own Tesla powered Christmas Tree. You be the judge from the picture, but doesn’t it look like Santa has put on a few pounds? We knew he was ...

Hanukkah starts at sunset tonight, and many jews still use traditional menorahs lit with candles. There is no need anymore my friends! This cool DIY project shows you how to make an LED lit menorah. We understand that lighting the candles is an essential part of the process, but it’s just so 17th century. Jews living in the modern age ...

Damn, this is one impressive project. This dude put together an incredible mod which allows you to control a camera phone through SMS messages. Pretty much making your cellphone a remote control for the hacked camera phone. When a message is sent to the hacked device, a set of relays activate the phones interface, navigating to the camera application. After ...

We might not be able to hold the whole world in our hands (we’d need some really big gloves), but we can at least hold a sphere of computer goodness. The Spherical Case Mod is a cool idea for any DIY PC modder. Just add in your favorite hardware ingredients, and voila. You’ve got yourself a PC in a ball. ...

Today, everything is about bulk. Everything is becoming more compact, even dare we say “snack-sized”. This user on the Ben Heck forums put together a creative gift for his girlfriend’s birthday. A NES Controller with the entire console built-in to the controller, as well as some built in-games. The NES Controller features the 2 player version of tetris, and a ...

Instead of worrying about buying an assortment of custom lenses for your video camera, why not just add your own SLR lenses on to the one you already own. The problem with adding multiple lenses is that your display winds up upside down because of all of the mirrored images. Joshua Reich fixes this problem with a few harmless tweaks ...

� How many cooling fans does it take to optimize your computers core temperature? Probably not this many. This PC mod is a tower composed of 66 cooling fans on the front, back, bottom, and top of the desktop. A project like this wold be much more time consuming than some DIY methods of cooling. With a PC like this, ...

If it were still Halloween season, I would probably add in a cute joke about this Mac Classic having a jazzy new costume. Since it isn’t that time of the year anymore, as I can already feel the quickly cooling temperatures turn my testicles into raisins, we’ll have to settle for calling this a really cool recycling mod. Being called ...

Featuring full slide action, this very miniature Nokia 5200 toy is small enough to get lost among the coins in your pocket, yet still resembles the slider phone. Did we mention it can slide despite its size? It can actually slide! Oh, and it also features an image of a kitty on the screen. Pst, Pst, here kitty kitty. — ...

Man, oh man, have we seen some kickass notebook mods in our day. It feels like it was only yesterday that I was proclaiming the iTop the coolest thing since sliced bread. This Antique notebook mod is really one for the record books. Running off of Ubuntu (like that even matters when your computer looks like this), the Heirloom mod ...