The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
R.J. McNamara built this great Mindstorms bottle opener: I decided to tackle building LEGO Mindstorms NXT Bottle Openers… The task turned out to be somewhat more difficult than I envisioned. The most difficult part by far was the Gripper Mechanisms, as they had to securely hold the Bottle and it’s cap in a manner that […]
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The members of the Fun Bike Unicorn Club are bringing Death Defying Figure 8 Pedal Car Races to Maker Faire Bay Area 2012. Inspired by old-school pedal carts, the club started building and of course the desire to race followed. In the spirit of healthy, and perhaps reckless, competetion, The Unicorns will be shredding around the track racing not only eachother, but anyone else who has brought a car to race. The rules are simple, don’t spend too much money, build it yourself, and brakes are mandatory! To learn more about the races, visit http://blog.makezine.com/maker/fun-bike-unicorn-club/
The Power Racing Series (PPPRS), where grown men and women ride around on souped up toy cars (like the pink Power Wheels Jeep shown above) is gearing up for another season. The phenomenon, mostly centered around the Midwestern U.S. hackerspace scene, has been around since 2009 and seen an impressive growth every year since then. […]
Lego builder Yaya Lu created a prototype voice-controlled wheelchair out of Lego Mindstorms NXT elements, along with such 3rd party add-ons as Rotacaster omniwheels and a Dexter Industriues NXTBee module. One of the problems with voice command systems is that the voice commands will be different for each of the approximately 7,000 languages used on […]
Scott Williamson is a former Atari dev who took up the grand challenge of porting Star Castle, a coin-up vector arcade game, to the 2600, 30 years after the fact. He did it. And put it in an amazing clear, custom 2600 cartridge with internal lights that flash during gameplay.
Simple tricks of illusion make the impossible a reality.
