Skylanders, Monsters Swoop Into Maker Camp
During our Maker Camp game design day and our behind-the-scenes tour of Toys For Bob (makers of the Skylanders), we were surrounded by some incredible toy figures.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Skylanders Designers Come to Maker Camp, Tomorrow
Join Toys for Bob’s Blake Maloof and I-Wei Huang tomorrow at Maker Camp on Google+. They’ll talk about game and character design and present “Monsters Ruined my Summer Camp,” a board game for campers to make and modify.
Montreal Mini Maker Faire: Meet The Buttonmashers
One of the exhibits at this weekend’s first Montreal Mini Maker Faire will be The Buttonmashers’ Arcade Royale, a four-player, re-habbed, re-programmed, and re-made video game cabinet.
Maker Camp: Extreme Marshmallow Cannons with Joey Hudy
Week 6, Tinkering Tuesday at Maker Camp. Joe Hudy shows us how to make a marshmallow cannon out of pvc piping and an air compressor.
Maker Camp, sponsored by MAKE magazine, was a virtual summer camp for teens, with a focus on creating, building, and discovering.From July 16th through August 24th, 2012, 30 awesome projects were made in 30 days, on Google+. Maker Camp is free and open to all.
Visit Makezine.com/maker-camp for more information.
Instructions for Joe Hudy’s Marshmallow Cannon: http://makeprojects.com/Project/Extreme-Marshmallow-Cannon/961/1
Etching Metalized Plastic
I have been hacking on some cheap R/C cars, lately, and wanted to etch metal films off of a few of the bits. I knew that the usual strong acid and base suspects would remove it, but many folks don’t keep these substances around, for whatever reasons. I got curious about milder etchants, and did a simple test with some household chemicals.
Self-Balancing Unicycle
21-year-old MIT computer science and electrical engineering student Stephan Boyer built Bullet, a self-balancing electric unicycle that reaches a top speed of 15 miles per hour and is the envy of his peers.
Nerdy Derby is Coming to World Maker Faire New York
When I was younger, I absolutely loved the Pinewood Derby, the miniature car building and racing competition that we participated in as Cub Scouts. Recently, I was talking to a group of fellow ITP students and we thought, wouldnโt it be fun to hold our own derby, but with no rules?
