Convert Your Gas Lawn Mower to Solar

This was a cool project where an old gas lawn mower was converted to an electric mower and charged off of a solar panel! Basically you pull off the gas engine and put on an electric motor with a battery and then use a solar panel to keep the battery charged. The total cost of the project was around 700 dollars and seeing how you can buy an electric lawn mower for around 300 dollars this is definitely more of a concept project than a practical project. But you could modify this project to add a battery to your existing electric mower and with a solar panel never have to plug it in again!

(via Zedomax)

RoundUp of X Box 360 Hacks

For all of you that just got your X Box 360 this Christmas here's a few hacks for your new console to get that extra mile out of your next-gen gaming console:

Quiet Your X Box 360: A major issue that most people have with their new X Box 360 is how loud it is! Read this hack from ExtremeTech on how they tried to quiet this bad boy down.

That's a difference of 4dB to 5dB. Interestingly, the extra insulation seems to help reduce the system's noise at all times, even just idling at the dashboard with nothing in the DVD drive at all. In the logarithmic decibel scale, a difference of 3dB is literally half the sound pressure. That doesn't quite map to human perception, though, and a 3dB difference doesn't always sound "half as loud."

Give Your X Box 360 Controller Tilt Capability: Check out how Adam modded his X Box 360 controller so you can have Wii like movement capability.



Save Money By Installing a Standard Notebook Hard Drive: Someone (via PVRWire) found out how to add a normal notebook hard drive to the X Box 360 saving you some cash by not having to shell out 100 bucks for Microsofts 20 GB drive. (If you put in a drive bigger than 20 GB you still can't use more than 20 GB)

Mod Your X Box 360 Case: There have been a lot of case mods out lately for the X Box 360. Check out Missing Remote's basic intro to using a dremel tool to do computer case mods to get you started.