Here’s an interesting concept for a site. Tinkerers put up instructions on how to create unusual projects.
Instructables: step-by-step collaboration
Sort of like the computer mod sites where people explain how they turned plain computers into works of art.
Mini-ITX based cases
Best Case Scenario
Case Mod God
And then things get odd…
Musical Instruments
DIY cruise missile
Hack A Day
Weird & Different Recipes
All this makes the plastic model making of my childhood seem almost quant.
Airplane Model Plans
Model Maker
And, of course, this wouldn’t be complete without…
Homemade Sex Toys
[Warning: don’t view this one at work unless you work in a massage parlor]
re: “Then things get odd”:
Junior Brown (best known for “Highway Patrol” and the classics “Venom Wearing Denim” and “Joe the Singing Janitor”) made his trademark “guit steel” many years ago. At this time of the morning the website seems to be down for maintenance, but here’s the google cache: http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.juniorbrown.com%2Fbiography.asp
The link to the Mini-ITX case was fascinating for me.
I especially liked the guys who took the old computers (C64, Atari, classic Mac, etc) and turned them into modern machines. It reminds me of the hotrodding trend of the ’50s when people had these cool old cars sitting around that they didn’t want to junk but weren’t really practical to drive anymore.
I got all six points – what was your score?