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Next, a papier-mache Ice Beam


Eyes5, the Metroid-obsessed crafter who displayed her wonderful Metroid hat at this year's Penny Arcade Expo, has created another lovably soft tribute to everyone's favorite floating head-eaters (and Super Metroid deus ex machina). Her plush Metroids are so delightfully colorful and cute that you'll forget that God those things are so freaking annoying in the first game especially when you're already kind of low on missiles.

But this isn't just a gallery of awesome crafts. Eyes5 kindly wrote up an intensely detailed tutorial for making these monstrous effigies, so anyone with access to a sewing machine and willingness to enter Jo-Ann's Fabrics can make their own little beastie. It'd be the perfect gag gift for Samus Aran's birthday, if we knew when that was and she existed!

Nintendo teaching people how to use the Zapper



Maybe it's just us, but if we were writing a tutorial for the Wii Zapper, it would go something like this:
  1. Attach Wiimote.
  2. Aim.
  3. Pull trigger.
Then again, perhaps we're underestimating the complexity of the peripheral, because if you saw the guide Nintendo has posted on its website to assembling and using the add-on, it would be easy to believe that the Zapper contains many deep, convoluted mysteries. Surely even the greenest gamer can't struggle to understand the concept?

[Via Punch Jump]

Nunchuck LED mod tutorial

We have featured LED mods for the Wii remote in the past, but today we have a tutorial for adding colored LEDs to your Wii nunchuck! Despite the instructional photos and well-documented walkthrough, we wouldn't suggest this sort of hardware hacking to an electronics novice. You won't have much to brag about if you accidentally set your circuit board on fire or unintentionally scar yourself with a triwing screwdriver. Hey, it could happen! "MCWORLD!"

If you happen to be skilled with a soldering iron though, this tweak might be for you. Following the tutorial, your nunchuck should have a swank LED glow right underneath the thumbstick whenever you've got it attached to a Wii remote in use. You'll be the talk of the town!

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