Not much, I’ll admit it. A bit of gaming: I’m making good progress in Need For Speed: Most Wantedand the new Tomb Raider demo was actually pretty good, I might have to trade in my under-used copy of Perfect Dark Zero for a copy.

I woke up with a yen to actually make something today and had been thinking about modding the spare Xbox 360 faceplate I have.

A bit of mucking about in photoshop – and the addition of a very handy template for the faceplate that I found on the web – and I have this:

It’s an Invader Zim faceplate – check out the link if you have no idea what I’m talking about

Now, I need to attach this to the Xbox 360. Happily the faceplates are just A4 long so I can print it out, but one problem: paper isn’t quite good enough – the faceplate bends in two directions and paper just isn’t stretchy enough. I notice that these people in the US sell stick-on faceplate skins, and use self-adhesive vinyl to do that. So I’ve ordered some vinyl that I can print on, and will give it a go! Fingers crossed…

If you are looking for a way to cycle safely at night and get amazing geek street cred, check out this project for LED wheel lights that make an animated image. You can even buy a kit to make your own easily. Now if only I actually had somewhere to keep a bike.

Perfect for any Bond Villain’s Lair – how to make giant metal globes! Ok, it’s a bit advanced but then nobody said it was easy to be a super-villain.

You’ve only got a couple of days left to bid on the amazing iTablet. It’s an old Apple iBook that has had major modding to make it into a tablet device – the screen has been swapped and a touch sensitive one added. It’s a very nicely done job, described on MacMod here.  The auction itself is here.

P.S. I’ve finally restarted work on my own mac mod, and am about 30% of the way through squeezing all the guts back into the little mac case. Am just awaiting some more supplies and hopefully it will be finished this week / weekend.  Phew!

Very nice japanese mod of a Mac Mini into a Classic Mac SE/30 case… good work fella!

Impressively he even re-used the old screen, I think. Scary stuff.

I really must get my mod finished. At least I’m nearly done website building now…

A very impressive, but crazy lego case

Not the approach I’m taking with my case, but nice all the same. (FYI
I’ve bought supplies of wood, aluminium and some nice brackets now, so
things are about to be glued/screwed together but a conference this
week will slow that down somewhat).