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Batman’s Tumbler Recycled from Dead PlayStation 2s

So you’ve got a couple of dead old video game consoles lying around. While you could just throw them in the trash, it’s better for you to recycle them. And what better than to turn your old game systems into Batman’s Tumbler?…

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Great White Shark Made from Junk: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Garbage Truck

I was minding my own business, strolling through the hallways of the Chicago Mini Maker Faire this weekend, when I turned a corner and came across this……

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Darth Vader Gets Upcycled: The Junk Side of the Force

We’re so used to seeing Darth Vader dressed in all black, but his iconic helmet really works well no matter what color it’s done in. Heck, even Hello Kitty Vader was pretty imposing. But I think that this version of Vader, built out of old bits of reclaimed electronics and…

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Junkyard Robot PC Case Mod Dares You to Ask if It Can Play Crysis

Believe it or not, this sculpture of a robot actually houses a working computer in its body. While this doesn’t dethrone the weirdest or the prettiest case mods that I’ve seen, the man who made it says he finished the whole thing in just 2 days. I can’t even finish…

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Robocop ED-209 Robot Recreated from Junk: Old Detroit Streets Still Not Safe

I just happened to catch Robocop on satellite yesterday again, and determined that it’s aged nicely from an cheesy, hyper-violent action flick into a hyper-cheesy, hyper-violent action flick over the years. Plus, it has the guy who played Dr. Romano on ER getting covered in toxic waste and splattered by…

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Swiss Satellite Aims to Clean up Space Junk

I can’t say that I ever really thought about Switzerland as being a space power. In fact, I didn’t even know the country had its own satellites in orbit but apparently, it does. As a matter of fact, the Swiss have enough satellites up there that they have devised a…

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Amazing Darth Vader Sculpture Made from Grandma’s Old Cutlery

Take a careful look at this bust of the Dark Lord of the Sith. Notice anything strange about it? Gaze deeply into Vader’s eyes. Look closer, and you’ll notice that it’s made from various bits and bobs of found junk from the cutlery drawer (and other antique stuff from your…

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Mysterious Space Ball in Namibia is a Pressure Vessel

Somehow, I missed most of the hubbub over this mysterious ball that is said to have fallen from the sky and landed in Namibia. It looks rather like a canon ball. It seems that while the ball may have in fact fallen from space and crashed into the ground in…

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Tom Samui’s Junk Elf: from Recycled Car Parts, Not from Rivendell

Swiss artist Tom Samui has been creating junkyard wonders for the last decade or so. He works with a team of 15 people creating these amazing sculptures made out of recycled automobile parts, like this intricate elf: Tom has created hundreds of these sculptures, entirely made out of scrap car…

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Thai Sculptor Transforms Scrap Cars Into Massive Transformer Sculptures

What is it about Transformers that gets people so juiced up? I don’t know, but maybe it’s all of those hours watching the animated series back when we were all kids. Check out these massive Transformers sculptures that measure between 8 and 19 feet-tall. …

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Computer Parts Robot Has Intel and AMD in Its Bloodstream

I always wonder what to do with all the bits and pieces of obsolete technology I have lying around. Sure, I donate what I can to schools, but I’ve even been turned down there when the tech is too old or unwieldy. Maybe I should do what Mike over at…

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Scrap Metal Transformers Join Megatron

Remember the Chinese dude who built himself a 5-ton Megatron? Well, the man going by the nickname “Steel Legend” is back and he’s made a bunch more scrap metal Transformers, from Autobots to Decepticons. He sure love robots. And these robots sure love junk!…

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NASA Studying Ground Laser for Orbital Clean Up

NASA is tired of all that space junk that’s orbiting our planet. The myriad of broken satellites and other junk orbiting poses a hazard to functioning satellites that are in orbit. A tiny little chunk of anything traveling at orbital speeds is enough to destroy a satellite and possibly harm…

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Lockwasher Robot Sculptures Whirr Their Way Into Our Hearts

Lockwasher creates these amazing robotic sculptures using objects that he found. I like the BR2D2, which is also called the BeertooD2, made from an old can of Heineken back in 2008. A second model, the BeertooD3 was created last year. Since then, Lockwasher has been busy working on new robots.…

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Optimus Prime Gets Real

I guess the guys in China felt they had to try and keep up with Japan and their gigantic robot creations, and built themselves an enormous Optimus Prime of their own. Standing 32-feet tall, and residing just North of the Bird’s Nest at Beijing’s Olympic Park, the giant Transformer might…

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Buy This Metal Yoda, You Will.

Created entirely from old bits of metal and scrap parts, this diminutive (but life-size) Yoda sculpture looks awesome. Handmade by Bangkok artist Yumi Modal, the only thing better would be if the little metal guy’s lightsaber actually lit up – but whaddya want for scrap metal? Of course, Yoda is…

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Tag: Junk

Batman’s Tumbler Recycled from Dead PlayStation 2s

Great White Shark Made from Junk: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Garbage Truck

Darth Vader Gets Upcycled: The Junk Side of the Force

Junkyard Robot PC Case Mod Dares You to Ask if It Can Play Crysis

Robocop ED-209 Robot Recreated from Junk: Old Detroit Streets Still Not Safe

Swiss Satellite Aims to Clean up Space Junk

Amazing Darth Vader Sculpture Made from Grandma’s Old Cutlery

Mysterious Space Ball in Namibia is a Pressure Vessel

Tom Samui’s Junk Elf: from Recycled Car Parts, Not from Rivendell

Thai Sculptor Transforms Scrap Cars Into Massive Transformer Sculptures

Computer Parts Robot Has Intel and AMD in Its Bloodstream

Scrap Metal Transformers Join Megatron

NASA Studying Ground Laser for Orbital Clean Up

Lockwasher Robot Sculptures Whirr Their Way Into Our Hearts

Optimus Prime Gets Real

Buy This Metal Yoda, You Will.

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