Archive for the 'hacks' Category

Portable NES inside and NES Controller

This week’s second fantastic NES hack comes from the BenHeck forums (you are already registered there, aren’t you?). This clever modder took a third party NES knockoff and crammed all the retro goodness into an actual NES controller. In addition to the awesomeness of simply relishing in its own irony it also looks pretty fun […]

WiiDrums: Wiimote Drum Machine Hack

When the Nintendo Wii came out I knew there were going to be plenty and plenty of user mods and hacks. This is simply one of the many that have already been released to the wild. It’s a very simple program (that clearly is still a work in progress) but the idea is […]

iBrella - Control Your iPod with an Umbrella

This innovative project is further proof that art and technology are two sides of the same coin. Is an iPod controlling umbrella a post-modern performance piece or a superp mp3 player hack? Clearly it is both.
This hack appears to use accelerometers to detect the motion of the umbrella. As the user turns, jumps or […]

PowerGlove Mouse Continued

Zerosign reader Austin Weber took it upon himself to make his own PowerGlove Mouse based on my previous design. In addition to cleaning up all the wires and using smaller circuitry components he also has a killer demo of the glove with Unreal Tournament. He mapped the in game controls so that his […]