Legend of Zelda Hyrule Map in Lego
Flickr user madoruk built this 1986-era Legend of Zelda game map out of Lego. Each Lego stud equals 16×16 pixels.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
How-To: Fast Toy Wood Car
Make this simple Fast Toy Wood Car for a fun DIY holiday gift.
Red Bull Flugtag Hits San Francisco
Over the weekend, MAKEโs web producer Jake Spurlock and I headed to nearby San Francisco to watch amateur pilots and engineers test their skills at human powered flight in the Red Bull Flugtag.Though it first started in 1991, this yearโs flugtag (โflying dayโ in German) marked the 10th anniversary of the eventโs U.S. debut in San Francisco in 2002.
Red Bull’s “Kluge” Rube Goldberg Machine
Red Bull’s Kluge Rube Goldberg Machine was built over 17 days by Syyn Labs (who also built that OK Go RGM using over 100 builders and 25 tons of material. Not to be a naysayer but I’d much rather watch a video of a bunch of nerds trying to set up a RGM (or better […]
Raspberry Pi in the Sky!
PublicLaboratoryย is a fantastic citizen scientist organization with really useful projects like DIY spectrometers (for finding out what’s really in stuff) and aerial mapping for monitoring of oil spills, landfills, etc. They’ve done some fantastic work using the continuous shooting mode of consumer cameras, including converting them to near infrared. The problem is that there is […]
Miniature Hand-Cranked Marble Machine
Check out this tiny marble machine.
Fly an iPhone on a Rocket and Collect Data
Data lovers, this week Make: Projects community member Mike Westerfield shared a pair of intriguing how-tos detailing how to fly a TI SensorTag and an iPhone on a model rocket to find acceleration, rotation, and pressure, then collect and analyze the data using a Bluetooth link to the iPhone and techBASIC.
