Here’s a sweet line following robot, thanks Liane! For the holidays, my local grocery store sold m&m’s candy containers in the shape of a racecar. The containers are painted metal (probably steel), with a thin plastic coating on the inside. A dinky package of plain m&m’s came inside, not peanut, as the yellow-color driver suggests. […]
Hurrah for Carey of full of fluff for making this crochet pattern for Pac-Man and all the ghosts available to us for free. Just download her pattern PDF to make one yourself! Link.
GarageGeeks have a ton of amazing projects: Guitar Heronoid (we covered this one previously), Mototank, CPod, Real Pac-Man, O-Re-Ly, Geek-o-meter and many many more… Pictured here, MotoTank! Take two motorcyles, cut them in two and connect them to a wheel. What do you get?? A tank! Each (half) motorcyle is completely independant with its own […]
Callum writes – My friend loves to ride his bike and he takes photos all the time so for his birthday I thought a handlebar camera mount would be perfect. I managed to make it from parts I had in my spares box and some normal workshop hardware. – An old speedometer mount – Pond […]
DJV writes – Here’s a cool cat toy, called the Cat Cocoon. It’s definitely not $249.99 worth of cool though. I’m pretty certain there are some industrious Makers out there who could make this for Nearly Free out of scrapped boxes and glue.It might also make a cool waterjet cutting project! Felinerina Cat Cocoon – […]
James from Retrothing writes in – I’ve been working on a Super 8 movie making magazine called smallformat with a bunch of dedicated Super 8 filmmakers from Europe. We’re putting the finishing touches on our ninth issue this week. It’s an eclectic mix of nostalgia and modern filmmaking information that introduces the ‘digital generation’ to […]
These are fun, laser cut fake leather watches – eealfakewatches are wristwatches that only work for one minute every day (well, two for analog ones). they are being made by linda kostowski and invited other designers. the watches are laser cut from three pieces of genuine leather and manually assembled. they are fastened with velcro. […]
