It can be difficult to get all the amazing geek and gamer gadgetry that you see online, in South Africa.
A weak rand and high duties on such items can also make it incredibly expensive to import geeky gear.
The solution? It is time to break out our renowned South African ingenuity and self-sufficiency, and make it ourselves.
LED Tetris tie — Bill Porter
Plush game controller — Adafruit
Steampunk keyboard — Instructables
Portal Gun — Instructables
Minecraft diamond ore wall lamp — Imgur
Laser-targeted blowgun — Grant Thompson ($5.95)
Steampunk Flashlight — Instructables
Tesla coil in 9 easy steps— Instructables
Kids Mega Man cosume — Instructables
VHS video casette recorder toaster — Instructables
Earthquake detector — Instructables
Radio controlled steam turbine tank — Inscructables
Nixie tube Geiger counter — Instructables
PVC pipe clock — Instructables
Lobsterbot – a simple LM386 based robot — Instructables
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle ooze — Instructables
Build your own speaker from scratch — Instructables
Arduino-powered ButtonHero game — Instructables
Pillar button from Portal — Instructables
Arduino-based word clock — Instructables
Night bike — Instructables
Solar cockroach — Treehugger
Solar-powered emergency radio — Treehugger
Pac-Man cork board — Instructables
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