Riding the (mono)rails
French artist Vincent Lamouroux built this cool pedal cycle to travel along abandoned French Aerotrain monorail tracks. I love it when the future is already in ruin. Vincent Lamouroux – [via] Link
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Stringwalker makes VR worlds even more realistic
“Stringwalker” attempts to solve the problem of walking with a head-mounted VR display through a virtual space. The project uses eight strings actuated by motor-pulley mechanisms mounted on a turntable to give the walker tangible feedback of their virtual environments while guiding them through the spaces. Just don’t try to attach your shoelaces to the […]
Sheldon Brown Bicycle maker passes away
All the parts for my bike came from the shop Sheldon Brown worked at, this is really sad – a maker writes in – This is primarily a piece of sad news and secondarily a link to an awesome maker’s site. Sheldon Brown recently passed away due to a heart attack. Sheldon has been famous […]
DS/robot multi-control
These French engineering students wrote some software to control a little Pekee bot via Nintendo DS’ wi-fi. They utilize several different control methods you may recognize from DS games (such as the MarioKart steering interface). To check out the app for yourself, download the .nds file posted here. And just in case that demo was […]
Space Invader cookies
From the MAKE Flickr pool: Ryan made his own retro-pixel cookie cutters and churned out a fresh batch o’ aliens. He seems to be a little wary of eating them tho, since the cutter shapes were assembled using solder. Yeah, probably a good idea to avoid all known lead content in food – but hey, […]
Mobile Internet LEGO Robot
Embisys has an Internet connected LEGO robot. What makes this a little different is the Nokia cell phone, which passes all the data via a mobile packet data service to an Ajax based web page. It can send pictures & receive commands anywhere there is a cellular signal. TeMo is a tele-operated mobile Internet robot. […]
Predator made from LEGO
Here’s a creepy cool Predator bust made from LEGO by Mister Zumbi – [via] Link. Related: LEGO from the pages of MAKE – Link. LEGO archives – Link.