Marine’s Field-Improvised Chess Set From Afghanistan
A Marine’s battlefield chess set made from shells, rounds, and bottle caps.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Sony suffers second data breach
Sony suffers second data breach with theft of 25m more user details @ Technology | guardian.co.uk… The crisis at Sony deepened on Tuesday as it admitted that an extra 25 million customers who played games on its Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) PC games network have had their personal details stolen – and that they were […]
How-To: Portal Sentry Turret Egg Cup
A small serving of genius from Instructables user Supernewby. [via CRAFT]
How-To: Twirly Toy
Teri from Giddy Giddy shares how she created this simple and charming twirly toy over on Book Hour Craft Projects. A little experimentation with wire, one of my favorite mediums, had my children in awe. I’ve made a number of things for them, but this simple toy impresses them most because it is set in […]
Kinect Han Solo in Carbonite
This is an experiment with Kinect and Processing. People in front of it are posing like Han Solo and get frozen in 3D. We are already exporting the 3D models for 3D printing. So stay tuned. The software will be open source soon if anyone is interested. [Thanks, Michael!]
Reminder: Bike Book Giveaway
Don’t forget that the drawing for two copies of Chris Nodder’s book, The Little Book of Bike Boo Boos, ends tonight at Midnight PDT. To be eligible, go to the giveaway post and leave a bike-related question or answer. The comments on the post are great, with Chris and other bike know-it-alls helping out the […]
Bike Bottle Rack
Clever idea from Etsy seller oopsmark. Perfect for hauling around your ships-in-bottles. Or, I dunno, bottles of wine or something. If you’re a weirdo. [via Dude Craft]