The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Artist Heather Muise crocheted a decapitated rat head and filled it with catnip in order to create a delightfully macabre cat toy. This probably seems totally normal to the cat. She also made a severed finger catnip toy, but I’m not sure that sends a message to the cat that I’m entirely comfortable with. More: […]
TED is a large, wall-based installation consisting of an array of 80 Teddy Ruxpin dolls that speak emotional content gathered from the web via synthetic speech with animated mouths. The speaking of the emotional content is accompanied by one of twenty-four musical vignettes that have been paired to the emotional content being spoken. Each vignette, […]
Check out this mind blowing dynamic domino sculpture by renegade artist FlippyCat. This time-lapse video shows his painstakingly hand-constructed Starry Night rendition. It’s an amazing sculpture in static form, but wait till he knocks over the first domino — that’s when the magic truly happens. Starry Night made from falling dominoes
Very cool idea from Dan over at adafruit: Use an OLED display module to create working scale train schedules, plane schedules, TVs, or other scale flat-panel displays for your Lego models
With a desire to find out how a deep display would look, video artist Blair Neal created the Crayolascope, a fantastic 3D depth display out of a dozen hacked Crayola Glow Books.
Fabian Erblehner built this cool Lightrider bike light with reed switches triggering the lights, rather than using a microcontroller.
My Little Pony enthusiasts are serious about their ponies. Apparently there’s a whole community of folks who lament the fact that the dolls have actual doll hair that you can brush and style, which looks nothing like the pony cartoon characters. Purists were up in arms. Leave it to a maker to answer their distress […]
