How-To: Super Bowl Glowing Helmets
Are you excited about the Super Bowl? Light up game day with some awesome glowing Super Bowl helmets!
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Using Lego Mindstorms Sensors With a Raspberry Pi
Dexter Industries has been playing around with the RPi lately, and hooked up a Mindstorms-compatible accelerometer/gyroscope to a RPi running Raspbian. They have a full tutorial showing how they did it.
Lovely Lego Ball Clock
Jason Allemann, who created these Lego mazes last year, built this beautiful and elegant Lego ball clock. The video shows how the rail system works with one ball being hauled up the chain every minute, then tipping the balance once enough balls have accumulated. [via Brothers Brick]
Made On Earth โ Gods of Thunder
Innovative engineering is often an iterative process of refinement and testing. For Nelson Pass, this means constructing ever-huger sound systems, and then field-testing them by throwing ever-louder parties.
Personalized Pez Dispenser Heads
Toronto’s 3D-printed jewelry company Hot Pop Factory received a client request to come up with a fun 3D-printed holiday gift for each of their employees, and I think they knocked it out of the ballpark with what they came up with: 3D scanned and printed Pez dispenser head toppers!
How-To: Ice Globe Lanterns
Tired of making snowmen and looking for other creative ways to embrace the cold temperatures? Mix a little fire and ice by making your own ice globe lanterns. The instructions couldn’t really be simpler: basically you fill up a balloon with water, let it freeze, cut the balloon off, drill a candle hole, pop in […]
Upgrade Your Lego Wii to a Lego Wii U
This is fun. If you think it, you can build it! Especially if you have an iPad don’t mind your Wii U being huge! [via the Brothers Brick]
