The Pop-Culture E-Zine
Who doesn’t like building stuff with K’Nex?! We sure do!
After drooling over the K’Nex Mario Kart, we now have a full-sized working pinball machine made out of K’nex! We honestly can’t stop watching this video. Ah, to have the skills and smarts to build such an awesome thing!
source: Tyler Bower
story source: hackaday
We are suckers for cute tech, so this TinyTV DIY kit hits the bullseye!
This super cute DIY TinyTV Kit complete with a vibrant full-colour OLED screen, assembles in less than 5 minutes and lets you load up to 5 hours of videos using a special conversion tool to convert MP4 files. Once done with converting the videos, you load the files on to the included MicroSD card and then you just grab some popcorn and sit back (Ed: or close, the screen is tiny!) and enjoy!
source: TinyCircuits
If you were impressed with Pixeljunkie’s playable mechanical LEGO Street Fighter II arcade machine, then there is no doubt you will be fully gobsmacked by Ginger Of Mods‘ WiiBoy Color creation – a portable Wii, which is similar in size to the Game Boy Color!
This creation took 9 months of meticulous work, from printing the shell, to fitting all of the components, like the motherboard and display, resulting in the superb and unique WiiBoy Color!
The ‘Shut up and take my money’ meme would be a massive understatement right about now!
source: Ginger of Mods
We don’t have to tell you how much we love the creations on Lego Ideas, especially ones that are pinball related, and this latest one is no exception!
Without waffling on too much, check out this Lego Ideas – Pinball Machine, it is so darn awesome! Created by Sebas Chilidog, this works just like a real pinball, with a ball shooter / plunger, flippers, score reel and pop bumbers just to give you that silverball fix.
You have over 400+ days left to vote for this Lego Ideas creation, so there is no sense of urgency right now, however, if you are like us, you may want to vote now before you forget to do so later down the track. Flip on peeps!
source: Lego Ideas The Pinball Machine
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to own the Guinness World Records’ largest playable Game & Watch device!
Back in 2018 we told you all about Dr. Tom Tilley’s massive Game & Watch Octopus creation which absolutely blew our minds! Well guess what, now is your chance to own this unique creation and be the talk (and envy) of the town.
If you are interested in this MEGA Game & Watch, head on over to Tom’s for sale page to get more details about the sale and to register your interest.
source: WithProfessorTom
Another jaw-dropping creation by the French modder OktoRetroLab, posted by Recalbox, this time, the mod is a fusion of an old Tiger Electronics handheld and a Famicom – making a pretty cool FAMIGER!
We reckon it’s the perfect use of a Tiger Electronics handheld 😉
source: Recalbox / OktoRetroLab
Hadouken! Hey peeps, you gotta check this out – a full-on mechanical LEGO Street Fighter II creation!
This is so darn cool, perhaps it should be submitted to LEGO Ideas. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY indeed 😉
🛠🎨 VOS CRÉATIONS ! 🎨🛠
Une borne #StreetFighterII en #LEGO… totalement fonctionnelle !! 👌😍❤
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY ! 💰💰💰
(via pixeljunkie) pic.twitter.com/Sop3ZmyK4x— Recalbox (@recalbox) August 8, 2020
The Nintendo Switch is still our go to contemporary gaming system, so when we see clever peeps injecting nostalgia with their Switch, we definitely take note!
One such clever peep, Imokruok has created two cool casemod docks for his Nintendo Switch, one based on the 8-bit NES and the other on the 16-bit SNES, albeit the North American version 😉
The best part is that Imokruok has documented these creations in step by step photos, so make sure you check out the full compliment of pics in the above Imgur links. Oh yeah, check out the video of the NES Switch dock builds process below:
NES Switch dock (build pics in comments) from r/NintendoSwitch
Donor SNES case – it all begins!
The completed SNES Switch dock – it’s a beauty
The NES case mod – it all has to start somewhere!
The finished product!
image source: Imgur
The amount of talent and knowledge some people have is beyond comprehension. One particular person got our attention on Twitter, gaug888. gaug888’s miniature Sega arcade machine creations are beyond amazing! Not only are they faithful miniature recreations of their bigger arcade brethren, they also play the arcade video games they are based on – totally mind blowing!
The meticulous level of detail of these miniature creations are off the charts. We reckon Yu Suzuki would be quite impressed too!
PS: If you want to check out the complete and documented log of gaug888’s miniature creations, head to Togetter now.
image source: gaug888 via Togetter
Stop the press! What the heck is this dark side of the force creation? We LOVE it!