What more do you need for a simple, (slightly) scary robot this Halloween?
Constructed from some simple bits of LEGO, servo motor, LEDs and simple microchip, the Rovin’ Pumpkin isn’t exactly a hit on the dance floor, but with its glowing green eyes and sneaky little movements, it could scare a few trick or treaters this [...]

For poor DIY fans. And those who don’t like genuinely geeky cars.
Show off your pics of your selfmade glam cars in the comments. We promise you that we will won’t mock you!

Some seriously retro geekery for you here, with Gakken’s launch of the GMC4 4-bit microcomputer.
Self-assembly required, it features a 20-key keypad, single 7-segment LED, seven individual LEDs, and comes with seven bits of software built in: an organ (basic tone generator), sound hit game, whack-a-mole, tennis, a timer, music player and morse code generator.

Here’s a [...]

I love this marriage of concepts and materials — parts of an analog clock fused with original Atari 2600 video game cartridges.
Sadly, if you’re after the game itself you’ll be disappointed to hear that the innards have been removed to make way for the clock mechanism.

Nifty Knits on Folksy is specialized in knitting meerkats. Her latest creation, Meertreks, is collection of awesome meerkats dressed as Trekkies. At £22 rather expensive but cool nevertheless.

Firstly let me say that, as a Brit, the first mental image I had upon reading about “keyboard pants” wasn’t the best, but once I saw a picture it all became clear.
That still doesn’t mean I fully understand why anyone would want a QWERTY keyboard – a pink, flexible, half-functional silicone keyboard – split across [...]

It’s impossible to run out of things to try and build from LEGO. In this case, Bjarne Tveskovs built a scale model of his beloved Apple iMac G4 from LEGO and a seven inch photoframe that can show photos, play movies and display TV pictures.
He says that there’s no actual Apple hardware inside the iMac [...]

Charles and Marie have released customizable message tape. The tape comes in the form of LCD digits and you can black out the dots to display any message you want.
At $15 for 50m of tape this seems a great accessory to customize package for a present. From Charles and Marie.
On another note we are now [...]

Casemods always have been popular and we have featured several awesome mods in our forums recently, but this Wall-E mod is one of the best ones I’ve ever seen.

More at English Russia.

If your home is nerd haven and full of geeky gadgets, you might also be interested in this sexy DIY hard drive clock which you can also purchase from Etsy for $32.
Recycling a hard drive and creating a unique and geeky clock is double WIN and certainly belongs in our Dept. of Awesomeness.

Seen on a local forum: turn your USB thumb drive in to the _perfect_ device to _shift_ your data.

Hubert de Lartigue has released a step by step phototutorial on how to transform Parisian subway tickets in to X-Wing fighters. The tutorial can be applied to any cardboard ticket sized 30mmx65mm, but the magnet strip perfectly fits the nose of the X-Wing.
For Star Wars fans mainly and definitely worthy to be featured in our [...]

Why spend out money on fancy stands for your laptop and other equipment when you can do something like Sasha Djuric has and make your own.
His Universal magnetic stand photo stream shows how he took some old monitor stands plus the strong magnets from a defunct hard drive to create a compact music workstation for [...]

This seems a perfect recycling alternative to combat that credit crunch we are going through. Recycling with flavour.
I bet you all still have a VHS Recorder lying around somewhere but who needs those nowadays anyway? Why not convert it in to a toaster?!

I wrote these plans after building building the project pictured at Lenny R’s Web Page. I drew all of the pictures (excluding the photohraph) using MS Paint.
This is a guide on how to make a Leyden Jar that makes awesome blue sparks with materials mostly just lying around your house. It’s cheap, it’s basically harmless, [...]

One of the “must have” accessories for any iPod owner is the iTrip. It allows you to listen to your iPod on your car stereo (or any stereo for that matter) by using an emtpy frequency in the FM band.
One problem that the iTrip has always had is range. Usually once you get it 1-2 [...]