15 DIY Gadgets
The Hottest Gadgets has compiled a list of the 15 most incredible DIY gadgets. Some of them are a little expensive or difficult to make, while others are quite easy. A few projects you can easily build yourself:
Laser alarm system
Laser listening device
Night vision camera (can be done with any CMOS camera)
Rubik’s Cube solving robot
iPhone controlled [...]
Lego Sushi
Yet more proof that there are lots of people with way too much free time! This sushi dinner made from Lego looks just amazing. Let’s see what we have here. I recognize a California roll, a tuna roll, and I don’t really recognize the third roll. On the bottom, there’s nigiri with I guess salmon, [...]
Video tour of the Lego factory
For anyone who grew up playing with Lego, the Lego factory is something like Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. It’s not a place you can visit just like that, but the people at Gizmodo have gotten an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the inside of this temple dedicated to the best toy in the world.
The tour consists [...]
DIY Lego Furniture
With these blocks, called the “Lunablocks”, you can build your own Lego furniture. They work exactly the same, only on a bigger scale. Available in a variety of colors, they can be used to build just about anything. Of course, you’ll need some pillows if you wanna build a sofa, unless you don’t mind sitting [...]
Lego Death Star: OMGWTFBBQ!
The people at Lego keep on amazing us with their übercool creations. And this set must be the coolest that has ever been made. Yes, I also said that about the Lego Millennium Falcon, but let’s face it: this thing looks just too incredible to be true!
The set consists of over 4000 Lego pieces and [...]
Canon Fuel Cells
Canon is developing a fuel cell pack for DSLR cameras. It’s a bit different than other fuel cell designs. This one is especially designed to supply fluctuating currents. It contains several cells that supply different voltages, wich can then be combined to supply the voltage needed, so no energy is wasted. I am very curious [...]
Lego Guitar Hero controller
If it wasn’t for the way too small guitar, I would have bought Guitar Hero for the Wii already. The controller is only half the size of an actual guitar, however, wich simply ruins the illusion that you’re a rockstar, wich is why you got the game in the first place.
Lego artist David McNeely has [...]
Lego egg timer
Here’s yet another version of the classic egg timer. Timers have been made that look like eggs, chickens, Mork’s spaceship (wich, in fact, also looks like an egg, and if you’re too young to know who Mork is, this should explain everything), and now there’s an egg timer shaped like a Lego minifig head!
The timer [...]
Lego AT-AT
Combining Star Wars and Lego is guaranteed to result in an infinite amount of coolness, and this Lego AT-AT model is no exception to that. Okay, so maybe it doesn’t make the ground vibrate for kilometers around, but it actually walks and has a minifig Luke Skywalker hanging underneath it!
I should really start having kids [...]
Lego Mindstorms NXT
Whenever I see an advertisement for Lego these days, it makes me wish I was born some twenty years later. When I was a kid, the most high tech kits available from Lego were the pneumatic sets. While those sets were cool, they are nothing compared to the stuff that’s available today, and the most [...]
