RPi Chess Game Written in Assembly Language
Xu Ji, Bora Mollamustafaoglu, and Gun Pinyo wrote a chess game for the RPi in Assembly Language, without bothering to use an operating system!
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
DIY Watermelon Pinata
This is an adorable watermelon DIY by Oh Happy Day! What a fun summer party project.
Lego Prosthetic Leg
Amazing time-lapse of Christina Stephens building her own Lego prosthetic leg.
5 DIY Ways to Beat the Summer Heat
It’s sweltering just about everywhere in the lower 48 this week, just in time for us to launch some rockets and break out the BBQ for July 4th. And in places where every home doesn’t have AC, it’s getting downright unbearable. So we figured we’d do our part to help folks find relief, and collect a few of the great projects we’ve written or seen around the Internet to inspire you to take personal cooling into your own hands.
The Tallest Bike in Los Angeles
Los Angeles-based cinematographer Richie Trimble knows how sweet the view is from a bicycle seat 14.5 feet up. Luckily, he shared it with the rest of us in his POV video of riding his insanely tall homemade bike, dubbed Stoopidtall, through L.A.’s bike-centric CicLAvia event. The beast was built in 12 hours using one Huffy […]
K’Nex Tic-Tac-Toe Robot
Instructable user OddBot built this Arduino-controlled Tic-Tac-Toe robot built out of K’Nex (actually, he used LOZ, a K’Nex ripoff product) using ping pong balls. He controls the robot with a universal TV remote and an IR receiver, and you can actually configure the game with the remote, setting up (for instance) a larger board like […]
Chris Thorpe: 3D Printing the Industrial Revolution
The mainstream news media is awash with speculation that 3D printing is bringing about a second industrial revolution. Whether this is true or not, nowhere is the comparison more apt than with The Flexiscale Company, a small UK startup making 3D models of the great steam engines of the first industrial revolution. I caught up […]