Tag Archives: Mods

DIY NES PC

by Noemi Twigg
Leave a comment
NES PC

Who has an old NES lying around the house gathering dust? If you do, you might want to pay particular attention to this post. You might just be able to do something productive with your hands and make some use of that old gaming console. If you don’t have one, but you have some cash to burn, you can still get your hands on this pretty nifty DIY NES PC. Jamie Regan got in touch with us to see if we would be interested in his creation: a DIY NES PC. According to him, he built this baby because he has too much time on his hands, the lucky guy. Read more »

Optimus Prime in Your Xbox

by Noemi Twigg
Leave a comment
Optimus Prime in Your Xbox

Don’t those guys who do mods amaze you? They actually create something (almost) new out of something that countless other people own, and for the most part, they do a good job. Well, I guess we only really see those mods that are cool. (Why would you want to post your mods online for the whole world to see if they suck anyway?) So I ran across this Xbox 360 mod that will not fail to impress; that is, if you’re an Xbox 360 fan (which I really am not) and a Transformers fan (which I am) combined. Created by Edanna, this once ordinary looking Xbox 360 is now a Read more »

Wooden iPod Mini

by Franky Branckaute
6 Comments
Wooden iPod Mini

Awesome mod of an iPod Mini. I must say this is probably the nicest iPod Mini mod I’ve seen so far, almost as beautiful as Joel Scilly’s wooden turntables. My finished wood ipod mini. This has been such a fun project for me. It’s handmade (with special thanks to my 8yr old dremel) from Australian red cedar, Camphor Laurel for the clickwheel, brass plates, brass screws and the guts from the first ipod i ever had. I was given a new ipod mini for christmas and I just couldn’t leave my trusty old mini to sit unused somewhere. So I decided to finally try a wooden shell mod on him Read more »

Play Guitar Hero with a real guitar

by Franky Branckaute
1 Comment
Play Guitar Hero with a real guitar

Sounds trivial doesn’t it? Of course everyone loves to play guitar with a real guitar. But what when it comes to Guitar Hero? There are many Guitar Hero aces among us, but we all play on those pesky plastic guitars. Well the guys from OpenChord have modded a genuine guitar to also function in Guitar Hero. Best of all is that the guitar still functions as a _normal guitar_. Read more »