Awesome Mods

After seeing artist Anh Dang’s wonderfully fun illustrations of a Playstation + crustacean hybrid, GingerOfOz was inspired to build a real-world version. He started with a cheap PSone he picked up on eBay, modified its circuit boards, and designed, printed, and assembled all its crabby bits. We love the Playstacean’s completely impractical pincer joysticks.

What does it take to make a “monster truck” other than a ridiculously lifted chassis an disproportionately-large tires? MuYe shows off a truck that meets those criteria, despite being smaller than a golf cart. After his pal Kenny Paton built a vehicle based on the Ibishu Pigeon from BeamNG.drive, he took it one step further and converted it into a tiny monster truck.

A regular paper shredder chews through a letter-sized sheet of paper in 2 to 3 seconds. CrazyConstructions upgraded their shredder with a 3500-watt motor and external power supply to maximize its speed. Sticking a sheet of paper into this thing is one of those “blink and you might miss it” experiences. He’s also got an extreme pencil sharpener.

Ice-drifting in a Miata is a fun way to spend a day. The guys at Garage 54 had a different idea for driving a Mazda in the winter. Their plan? Take the front half of a junkyard Mazda, attach an underbody sled, and slide it around on the snow. Since the donor car was front-wheel drive, no rear wheels were needed.

Piano? More like paino. Mattias Krantz has a thing for making dangerous musical instruments. After creating a piano that’s capable of electrocution, he moved on to one that triggers paintball guns when its keys are pressed. It plays music by turning its victims’ screams into notes.

For those of you who didn’t grow up in Victorian-era England, a Penny-Farthing is one of those bicycles with a giant front wheel, a tiny rear wheel, and a seat that needs a ladder to climb onto. Gregulations says he had a strange dream that compelled him to make a Penny-Farthing motorcycle. The result is the insanely-stupid Yamaha R6-powered SuperFarthing.

Garage 54 adds to their collection of whacked-out Ladas with the craziest engine swap we’ve ever seen. Or should we call it an engines swap? To power this dumpy Russian sedan, they replaced its factory power plant with 16 chainsaws connected in parallel to a single driveshaft. There’s an second video showing how they built the engine.

Dust2 is the most famous Counter-Strike map. Noclip looks into the origins of CS’s most famous map with its creator, Dave Johnston. Long before CS, Dave cut his teeth making maps for Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. Unlike his previous CS maps Cobble and Dust, Dave was deliberate in designing what would become his magnum opus. You’re a legend, Dave!

Nik Grebenyuk made a literal game-changer for The Witcher 3. His PC mod for the game lets you switch between Geralt and your own custom character. You can mix and match looks from other characters in the game or make your own from scratch. As if that wasn’t enough, you can even play as a sorcerer or sorceress, which has its own combat system.

China makes the widest variety of cars on the planet, from 6-figure executive sedans to crappy little things like the $1300 Chang Li Tank city car. After performing a durability test and testing it off-road, the guys from Grind Hard Plumbing Co. completely rebuilt the 2-horsepower car, outfitting it with four-wheel drive and a pair of 28,000-watt electric motors.

The car that Doc Brown drove (and flew) in the Back to the Future movies was a DeLorean DMC-12. Mixing things up for the 21st century, the guys from Supercar Blondie show off the TMC-12x, a Tesla Model X Plaid modified by The Shop in Tampa to look like the time machine. The EV even leaves a trail of fire on the ground. Stick around for a second awesome car.

Are skins or DIY paint jobs not good enough for your already pricey Apple Pencil? Well, the madmen at ColorWare would be all too happy to take your money. Their take on the obvious color scheme for the second-generation iPad stylus is, as expected, completely overkill in terms of both quality and price.

You know those toy cars that move using a flywheel? The car-chopping madmen of Garage 54 took another rusted-out old Lada and fitted it with such a mechanism. They connected its engine and transmission to the flywheel via a differential, pulley, and belts. After giving the car some gas, let it coast to see how far it would go under flywheel power.

Diesel Brothers Heavy D and Diesel Dave know a thing or two about modding vehicles. For this build, they outfitted a Tesla Cybertruck with an upgraded suspension and giant snow tracks. This clip teases us with footage of their CyberTrax electric pickup dashing through the snow. They plan on releasing a full-length video on YouTube soon.

Inspired by the Backyard Scientist’s industrial laser experiments, YouTuber Styropyro got a cheap but powerful industrial fiber laser of his own. He started by testing the 2-kilowatt laser’s cleaning and burning capabilities; then, he attached a beam-spreading lens to help light things on fire from a long distance.

This crazy flying bicycle was created by Chinese maker Aircraft Model Art. He started by purchasing the lightest bicycle he could find, then made a custom foam wing and attached a pair of powerful motors. It took several redesigns to come up with a version that could stay airborne. We suggest turning on English captions.