Pancake Bot Survives Maker Faire… But Not the Flight Home
Miguel Valenzuela’s Pancake Bot survived Maker Faireโฆ but not the flight back home to Norway.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Mechanical Donkey Kong
M.S. Raynsford’s mechanical game looks super cool! And he’s working on a new version. I finally present to you my mechanical donkey kong V1. A simplified version of the original plan due to time constraints this one rotates the Mario, jumps over the balls and operates the feed and catchment mechanisms. Made almost entirely from […]
3D Printing a Rocket Engine
3D printers are cool for printing miniature Yoda heads, tiny owls, and little tea cups. But what about printing something really useful, like, say, a stainless steel rocket engine? Check out this project from Rocket Moonlighting. Says Hack-a-Day: Most any rocket engine youโd find on a spacecraft โ save for solid or hybrid rockets โ […]
Android-Controlled Mindstorms Plotter
Eason Ke’s NXT Painter, a LeJOS-controlled plotter, draws whatever the user draws on the screen of an Android device. Code here. [via The NXT Step]
Season 3 of Large Dangerous Rocket Ships to Premiere
For the third year running, SCIENCE takes viewers inside the high-flying, fuel injected competition of LARGE DANGEROUS ROCKET SHIPS, or LDRS (as it’s known to insiders) brings together junkyard geniuses who love the thrill of danger and have a knack for all things explosive for one of the nationโs largest competitive rocket launching events. Audiences […]
LEGO Record Player
Though not entirely LEGO, this faithful reproduction from Canadian maker Ryan Alexander does play actual vinyl (though heavily garbled) and performs well enough to show the proof of concept.
Maker Faire New York: Giant Mechanical Thumb Wars
The classic game of thumb war meets rock-em-sock-em-robotsโif the robots in question are 30 feet tall and have hands the size of engine blocks. Thumby Wars, as it’s known, was the “Team’s Choice Selection” winner in this year’s Red Bull Creation contest, and saw its first public appearance today at Maker Faire New York. The […]
