Dr. Action’s Distraction Contraption
Sam built a small arcade machine. He has a great photoset showing the build process. Appears like he used Lego parts here and there, nice!
Month: April 2011
Dark Side of the Loom
Sean Ragan @ MAKE spotted this crafty take on the classic Pink Floyd album cover: The Dark Side of the Loom.
That’s How We Roll
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, this homemade contraption from user Whymcycle who, besides having the best UID I’ve ever heard, has this to say about his creation:
Made from an 8 foot..96?..pair of power line spool hoops, sized down and painstakingly re-arc-ed back to more or less circular 84?, and crossbars of electrical conduit. Also with 4 handholds made from Schwinn Varsity drop bars…and foot straps of old car seat belts. We’ll see if practice, persistence and careful study of YouTube European footage..will allow me to learn some of the art of Wheel Gymnastics.
The device itself is called a “Rhönrad,” “gymnastics wheel,” or “German wheel,” and is apparently the basis of an entire sport in Germany.
How-To: Super Mario Papercraft Magnetic Board
Whip up a fun papercraft 3-D Super Mario magnetic board with this tutorial from Laboratory 424. I love that you can move all the pieces around to create different scenes from the game. [via Sprite Stitch]
Make: Live Episode 06: Bikes – Basics to Extremes (preview video)
Make: Live 06 – Bikes, Basics to Extremes Wednesday April 13th, 9pm ET/6pm PT Watch at makezine.com/live or on UStream Please join us in the UStream chat or mark tweets with #makelive to interact live with the show. We also give away a fabulous prize from Digi-Key to one chat member who can solve our […]
Kinect Controlled AR Drone
This Kinect controlled AR Drone mashup from the folks at Ziekel Engineering looks like a load of fun.
Arduino Light Pen
I like this demonstration of an alternate input device by Paul Bishop. He built an Arduino light pen using an Arduino, television, and photoresistor. It works by displaying a series of flashing boxes on the screen, and using the photoresistor to measure if there was a change in the amount of light that it saw […]