Category: Geek Art + Craft

Two of our favorite cars just got mashed up head on at 88 MPH, with Michael Knight behind the wheel of one and Doc Brown behind the wheel of the other. Yes, one ambitious fan has taken a classic DeLorean and transformed it into a mashup of the time machine from Back to the Future and Michael Knight’s classic car K.I.T.T. 

And now for your moment of zen. This Etch a Sketch Zen Garden Coffee Table is a great way to channel your inner calm. Friend of Technabob Caleb Kraft created this fun project that combines a coffee table, an Etch a Sketch and a zen garden.

Redditor Sithslayer78 loves playing Humans vs. Zombies (HvZ), a live action game where players try to survive a zombie invasion using soft toys, such as NERF blasters. He’s added another layer of roleplaying to his HvZ games by modding his blasters in the style of Halo‘s trusty assault rifle. This Rayven is the 5th NERF blaster that Sithslayer78 has modded in a Halo theme.

Allen Pan is a cool guy. Cool as ice even. Allen recently built a sword not out of steel, but of ice. Surprisingly, it is strong enough to chop through a watermelon and also can decapitate helpless snowmen.

It’s easy to find NFC or RFID rings these days. Adafruit sells them, but the electronics shop knows that it caters mainly to makers, so it came up with a guide for a customizable 3D printed ring. The ring gets is power from Adafruit’s micro NFC transponder.

We’ve seen a couple of cool LEGO BB-8 models, but this LEGO Ideas proposal by Mark “mjsmiley” Smiley and James “artbot138” Garrett is significant because it can actually roll while its head stays upright, all using commercially available LEGO parts. While the droid’s body may not look like a LEGO part at first glance, it’s actually a model of the planet Tatooine, which is part of LEGO set #9675 along with Sebulbba’s Podracer.

Hackster member Minimum Effective Dose made a pair of helmets that makes it seem like the wearer both speaks and understands droidspeak. Each helmet emits bleeps and bloops as you speak, and you can understand what the wearer is saying only if you have the other helmet on. The secret to the helmets is that they don’t translate at all.

I’ve come to the conclusion that even if you buy the cookie dough that is offered in sheets during the holidays, your cookie cutter cookies will still come out more round and blobby than you expect.

Bubble wrap is crazy amazing stuff. Popping it’s bubbles is both calming and addictive. There are some people who love bubble wrap so much that they would put it all over their walls and surfaces. For those people, check out these Unpoppable Bubble Wrap Drink Coasters. These are unpoppable, so that’s kinda torturous for those who like to pop this stuff, but still, it looks just like the stuff you love, in coaster form.

Redditor fetchbeer can now push Super Buttons and have someone to talk to when he’s going crazy. They made an end table that looks like the Weighted Storage Cube from Portal. The cube is made of MDF and foamboard and is lit from the inside with RGB LEDs. Check out fetchbeer’s partial build log below: Weighted Storage Cube If you listen closely you can hear it say, “I love you…r sofa.”

We’ve seen all kinds of homemade guitars around here, but I don’t think we have ever seen a shovel turned into a guitar before. Check out this this video of musician Rob Scallon as he actually rocks out with his Shovelcaster. Rob’s pal from How to Make Stuff modified an average shovel into a one-string electric guitar.

We’ve seen a couple of huge Game Boy replicas, but they were actually running off of a Raspberry Pi. With the help of Parker Dillman aka The Longhorn Engineer, The Ben Heck Show was able to connect a Game Boy to a VGA monitor to create a nearly 7:1 scale replica. The project is based on the (arduous) process and the software that Parker developed, which involves using an FPGA and a level shifter to take signals from the Game Boy’s LCD screen and send it to a VGA monitor.

The mini-series finale of The X-Files airs this Sunday, so it is the perfect time to grab this official The X-Files Coloring Book from IAm8Bit. I want to believe, but I’m just not a good colorer.

San Francisco-based costume designer Mikaela Holmes created this amazing Millennium Falcon purse which does the Kessel run in record parsecs and will also carry all of your accessories. It is the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy or on your hip. The super-detailed leather purse is lined with fabric printed with Millennium Falcon blueprints, it has metal grommets for the engine vent holes, and even has LEDs for the ship’s hyperdrive engine lights.

Etsy store LitUpInteriorDesign makes lamps out of used objects and toys. Some of their best designs involve Dragon Ball Z action figures, where the bulb is set up in such a way that they stand in for the characters’ energy attack. The bulb is mounted horizontally on a post at the rear of the wooden base to obscure the socket. It’s such a simple trick but it works really well.

Link, Princess Zelda and the rest of The Legend of Zelda series turned 30 yesterday, so I thought I’d look for a Zelda-related item as a birthday present. I didn’t have to look far, thanks to Sprite Stitch forum member rufusdampfer, who crocheted this awesome blanket that depicts the title screen from the first game in the series. Rufusdampfer says they spent around 2 hours each day for 4 months to create the blanket. You can hear it too, can’t you?