Conductive paint LED helmet
Matt lit up his cool bike helmet with LEDs and conductive paint. Check out his neat graf tag, too! – Link. Related: LED bike helmet – Link. HOWTO – Make a LED bike light system – Link. Solar-powered bike helmet – Link.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Bicycles that carry powerful beats
Great NY Times article about bike stereos, photo Tyler Hicks/The New York Times – A new biker gang is roaming the streets of Richmond Hill, Queens. This crew of mostly teenagers can be seen riding along 103rd Avenue just west of the Van Wyck Expressway. The bikes roar, but the booming sound has nothing to […]
Film can cannon, binge-drinking snacks on bbtv
Today on bbtv, Mark shows you how to make a film can cannon. He builds one from a kit, but you can easily make your own from household items. Followed by a claymation video of snacks at a kegger? Film Can Cannon / Snack Mansion – Link
Arduino NES to MIDI Project 1.0
This project converted a Nintendo Powerpad into a MIDI controller! – Link.
Bike stripping
Josh writes in – I’ve been building bikes for a bit now and doing what I can to document the process in between the sheer joy of building and learning stuff. I thought I’d share with the Make crowd what I’m learning and how. I’m starting from only the most basic bike fixing knowledge and […]
Fixing a Rock Band Strat
How to fix the dreaded “downstrum has stopped registering intermittently” problem. Rock Band: My strummer broke… AND I FIXED IT – Link
RFID poker table
From HackedGadgets: James Brown, Shawn Ironmonger, Michael Moninski and Dan Moore from Purdue University put together quite the gambling machine. They made a Smart RFID Poker Table that could keep track of where chips where placed on the table… “Our project aims to simplify the poker playing experience by providing each player at the table […]