The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
This custom built throttle project shows you how to add a more realistic gaming experience to your boring flight simulator game. Pretty simple construction notes at the link below. How to Build Dual Throttles For Your Flight Simulator
Here’s a Nintendo DS sequencer project / hack that comes with source code. Really simple interface using the touch screen and a pretty cool way to lay down the tracks live. DStep V2 DS MIDI Sequencer [via]
Yes, this is another drum machine, but I couldn’t help myself. This one listens and repeats the rhythm that the user plays. The whole thing is made from a Lego NXT and what appears to be Lollypops for mallets? More about the Lego NXT robot drum machine Related: The Drum machine robot
Marshall writes – The Multari is a portable Atari 2600 with 32 built-in games built by myself, Marshall. It features a vacuum-formed styrene plastic case, 5″ LCD, and no big cartridges to carry around.
This Instructables shows how one gamer built his own FPS gun for playing Halo 2 and Deus Ex on his big screen home entertainment system. FPS arcade style gun
Action figure modder Silloff, who’s work we’ve blogged about before, has an amazing collection of Star Wars figures re-envisioned within a steampunk universe. Steam Punk Star Wars [via]
And with that, we’ve finally reached some sort of pod people (pod kitty?) singularity/assimilation situation in which every product in the known universe has been Hello Kitty branded. The outrageous Hello Kitty Power Sander [via]
