Back in the day when the G3 series came out they were the first computer with any thought of style. But the glory days have passed and the G3 is almost useless for anything more than a paper weight. So why not convert it to a P4 and piss off a lot of mac enthusiasts at the same time?

Window kits are a dime a dozen nowadays, but there once was a time it was just for the elite. well the good old days are back! With this mod you can have a window kit like no other!

What could be cooler than a terabyte of raid 5 storage space? maybe building it entirely out of surplus and cheap hardware!

There are so many differing ideas, and guides out there in regard to how to do home theater projection on a budget that it can make the average variety of geeks head spin! So after some thinking, tinkering and 3 or 4 attempts to take over the world. we decided that we write up this guide.

Time for another flaming monstrosity.. How about nice Xerox laser printer converted to a high volume automatic paper shredder? This project was featured on 8/3/05 on toms hardware's "how to" section. Now, here it is, un-cut and un-molested by the Toms Hardware "editors" in all its sarcastic glory!

Those of us that have used LCD monitors for a while know that over time the backlight starts to dim and will eventually completely fail. Leaving you with some electronic scrap that you could sell on eBay for 35 bucks or so. Well for less than $20.00 and about a half hour of your time you can replace the backlight and rejuvenate that monitor to as good as new condition.

For some time I have been rather interested in the whole immersive simulator world. Finally I decided that I should try to make my own finally! So using readily available parts I did. Now this isn't a super cheep project to do, but I have gotten the price point down to an affordable level for you racing enthusiasts out there.

I had this dead ups lying around and didn't know what to do with it. So we threw some ideas back and forth and the one that stuck was a hidden rogue server. This could be used for both good and awesome. Just think of the possibilities. A hidden file archive, hook it up to your hacked tivo, mess with the RIAA when the come search your house..... (#$))_%$)*@&^( )%^@ (NO CARRIER)

After a few hours of gaming with our normal high-end mouse pads you get a build up of sweat. The mouse and mouse pad becomes slippery and you start to loose your competitive advantage due to the loss of precision. While there are a couple mice on the market that have small fans in them to dry out your palm, they all have major failings in precision and accuracy. So after some thought and discussion we chose to build out our own custom mouse pad with a blower in it to suck the air down through the pad and away from the gamer’s hand.

With the introduction of the dancing gaming systems here in the states there has been huge growth with in the community. The problem that anyone who is truly interested in the fitness gaming revolution is the gross difference between the home console and arcade dance pad quality. Even the super high end dance pads that cost 500+ are not considered a long term or heavy use choice by our local community. So I set out to create a dance deck at an affordable price rang that would even trump the arcade quality units.

I started this project with more of an idea of creating a system that would visualize Cherenkov radiation via webcam utilizing a Gamma radiation source and heavy water in some heavy lead shielding to produce the tell tell bursts of blue light. Maybe hook it up to the LCD window kit system we did and display it on the widowed screen. Deciding to ramp up to my project and also experimenting with other types and sources of radiation for the project I stumbled across a myriad of new ideas for possible systems with some far reaching and profound results.

This project came from a challenge I was given by a fan of InventGeek. Basically they chose the most common place and mundane item they could think of and challenged me to improve it in a practical way. So how do you improve a bread box? Well for starters I how about making it more useful than just a nice place to put your bread and we are not talking about putting a computer in it. After modding out our bread box I think we have come up with something terribly practical. Worst case then we have come up with a really clever science fair project for you your kid to do.

I have wanted to do this project for a few years now. While its was a relatively quick build, the time from the photo shoot to publish has been an extremely long and rocky road. Regardless in the end we have produced the first ionic cooling system for your high end gaming system. This system produces absolutely no noise and in fact has no moving parts at all. While this is a proof of concept it proves that you can get the CFM you need to cool a system efficiently with no moving parts and no increase in power consumption.

Due to popular request we have built this miniaturized ion cooler as a second step in its evaluation. We chose to use an external design for several reasons, all of which mitigate concerns from people on our initial prototype. One of the biggest concerns was with regards to the air moving through the computer possibly having a imbalanced electrical charge or alternately producing to much ozone and possibly damaging components in the system. By mounting the unit at the rear of the case with it sucking air out of the case we are able to still achieve beneficial results and address these issues.

We will be modifying a simple USB based foam missile launcher base and an 350 rounds per minute airsoft gun then blending them into a USB airsoft turret. This project is perfect for shooting the local office mullard, century turret for your home, or even pidgin control. These airsoft guns shoot a plastic BB at up to 250 FPS and is powerful enough to leave some healthy welts on unsuspecting targets.

As promised here is version 2.0 of the airsoft turret project. Based on an overwhelming amount of fan feedback from the first project we decided to make the platform a little more flexible by supporting both USB and Radio Controlled interfaces so more people with different interests will be able to tinker with it. So for this project we will be detailing the construction of the turret and building the base as more of an experimental platform so you can choose what method you want to use.

This project has really taken a lot of time to finally get published. It has kind of taken a back burner to our other projects just due to its sheer scale. At the time of this article being written we have over 150 images and the article takes more pages than any other article we have ever produced. It’s just HUGE! So why is it getting finished now? Hardcore Gamer Magazine wanted to feature our older version of our dance pad. This new version is so far and above superior that I had to give them this. In fact they are featuring the world premiere of this article. So, with no further adieu. The ultimate dance Deck 2.0