The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Spore the much-anticipated game of lifeform design and development looks like it will be worth the wait. The Spore Creature Creator software has been released and I can say firsthand – it’s a thoroughly fun and creative experience. The free demo software includes only a quarter of the total parts palette available in the full […]
Robert Oschler, of RobotsRule, sent us news of these new videos WowWee has just released, showing their “Femisapien” (ugh) robot, which features poseable scripting. In the first video, WowWee (and BEAM) robotics guru Mark Tilden shows how the scripting works. The second, rather goofy, video shows two bots fencing as they play back their scripts. […]
Here’s a nice how-to for making your animatronic teddy (read: ruxbin) speak your friends’ twitter feeds. Arduino powered and source code included. Via Hack a day.
Kieran Nolan writes: Here are some recent projects from year 2 of the Creative Media course at DKIT. The student groups were each given a toy and assigned the task of hacking it together with a keyboard to create a controller for an original interactive experience. Examples include a graffiti simulator and a couple of […]
Next time your alarm goes off in the morning and you switch it off, only to sleep through your important meeting that day, you might want to look into this nifty alarm clock. The 80s cube clock forces you to solve the puzzle before the alarm stops, so you need to be on your toes […]
Over at the Steampunk Workshop, Jake von Slatt has more pics of the Brass Lion recumbent steampunkified trike. The Brass Lion – Steampunk Recumbent Related: Brass Lion recumbent tricycle
Rod Stewart: model train geek? Who knew? Stewart contacted Model Railroader magazine last year, said he’d been a hobbyist for 20 years, and sent them pics of his layout. While he was on tour, he visited the magazine’s offices in Milwaukee. Stewart invited editors to come see his HO scale 23′ x 124′ layout in […]
