Fun & Games

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.

Video-bending with glitchNES

Video-bending with glitchNES

Many of us can recall repeatedly trying to load up NES cartridges that, for one reason or another, decided to display shifting screens of random bits instead of their intended game. No Carrier’s open source glitchNES software makes exploring those accidental realms of digital art easy. Alter the code to your heart’s content then load […]

Laser-less tactile rubik’s cube

Laser-less tactile rubik’s cube

Instructables Member GTIG has a well documented Instructable on creating a tactile Rubik’s cube. This cube brings a unique characteristic to solving a Rubik’s cube that no other cube does… the ability to say “I solved it without even looking at it once.” Rather than building hand-eye coordination, it builds hand-mind coordination. I find that […]

Spanish students beat NASA

Spanish students beat NASA

A group of student makers took kite arial photography to a new level: weather balloon photography. They certainly are undercutting NASA’s budget, spending very little on their project, and fabricating most of the structure and electronics themselves. Check out Gareth’s previous entry on the project. Mail Online has a decent writeup. Nice of them to […]