The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Can’t get enough of Minecraft? Wish you could bring your creations with you wherever you go and interact with them in the real world? Now you can with the Minecraft Reality app by Mojang. That’s right–get chunky 8-bit style graphics rendered in hardware accelerated real-time 3D and mapped over your smartphone’s field of view to […]
New uses for existing materials can fuel hardware innovation. Such was the case for Anton Willis who after moving to a San Francisco apartment had to put his beloved kayak into storage. No room for big toys. By coincidence around that same time he met Robert Lang, a physicist and renowned origami expert. The ideas of kayaks and origami fused in Anton’s mind and lead him on a journey that resulted in the Oru, an innovative folding kayak.
Add a strand of outdoor bunting to your holiday decor!
Anika‘s clever Mindstorms robot scans colors on the bottom of an LP. Matthias Paul Scholz of the NXT Step Blog helped with the software. [via The NXT Step]
Trotify is a coconut-clopping bicycle attachment.
Sean McBeth of Philadelphia’s Hive76 hackerspace built this audio-based video game:
Sometimes you need a little magic in your life, and that is what Kate Benbow created when she made this tiny fairy doors appear in her home. I saw this on Design Sponge and was delighted to see a non-functional project that was made for the sole purpose of creating a splendid moment of joy for someone. How lovely and fun.
