Daily DIY

The Wii is here, but getting a hold of the better-looking component cables is turning out to be a real pain in the neck. Nintendo’s official online store ran out of the $29 cables almost immediately, and now they’re showing up on eBay for more than five times the regular price.

Sure they look better than the standard composite cables. Since we’re not even talking about high definition, what kind of difference do component cables really make?

Hit the jump for some before and after shots.

For these images, the default images use the composite (read: janky, non-progressive scan) and the mouseover version is the component version.

A difference to be sure, but worth forking over all that dough? How about you make your own cables and be done with it? Our half brothers over at Kotkau show you how. – Nicholas Deleon

Wii Component Cables Fetch High Prices On eBay [Kotaku]

Cable Comparison [GameSpot]

Target is handing out Wii GiftCards in anticipation of Nintendo’s release of this remarkable console. The cards are a bit thicker than your regular credit card and house some pretty nifty electronics. Pressing the button on the outside of the card turns on a ominous blue Wii glow that lasts about ten seconds. I’ll pop the case on this little thing and check out the internals. After that we’ll add a bit of functionality to the LEDs.



Gather up some tools…



#0 Phillips Screwdriver

Small Flat Screwdrivers

Soldering Iron & Solder

Forceps or Needle Nose Pliers

Knife





and lets get started!








By: friedpope

Give your Gameboy Advance a little solar power.


By: bmlbytes

make a great case for youn NDS or other electronic device easily out of nothing more than denim fabric and duct tape.


By: hivoltage

now if youre like me and have a nes that likes to blink on and off when you wanna play your games this is for you


By: mrbob1000

So I’ve noticed that there’s "alot" of people, talking about how they would add LED’s to their NES pads, that lights when a button is pressed. Sadly noone seems to do anything about it, but one guy who just added LED’s that was on constantly…



So I desided to something about it



Attached: Small video of me demonstarting that it works…


By: Silas

I really like my NES, and i really like the features of the NES Advantage pad Unfortunatly the advantage pad is not good to play with. It requires enourmous movement of your hand to use the joystick, and the A & B buttons tend to get stuck. Also you can’t move freely with it, like the normal NES pad. Therefore i desided to add a port to the NES advantage pad, to allow a normal NES pad to be used, and to use the "Turbo" option, and the "player 1 or 2" option.

Yeah, I know. Some of you think it’s a death sin to mod NES & hardware. And i’m pretty sure most of you are getting really tired of NES mods. But I haven’t seen this mod anywhere, so bite me…

I’ve called my creation the " NES AdPAD."


By: Silas

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Check out this iPod Shuffle ‘case mod’ from over at TechEBlog
“This follow up to the first NES controller MP3 player builds on the premise of that device, but uses an iPod Shuffle instead of a hack job. Aesthetically, everything has remained intact, other than the modified start/select buttons. Lots more pics after […]