By all accounts, British engineer Andrew Ainsworth is a pimp.

MAKE found a video, and directions, for converting an old VCR into a very unsafe (therefore fantastic) toaster, as seen on the BBC sitcom The Young Ones in the early 80's.

Via designnews: Perhaps you have a "Big Mouth Billy Bass," given to you circa 2001.

John Boiles and the rest of the engineers at Waterloo Labs turned an Oldsmobile Delta '88 into a remote control car that can be controlled by an iPhone:We built our control systems using a few motors, potentiometers, a Compact RIO embedded controller, and LabVIEW.