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The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Alt.GDC: Jousting with Move Controllers
In the back corner of Expo Hall, you might notice a group of wand-wielding gamers pacing around each other, eager to strike. They’re playing Johann Sebastian Joust, a screen-less game which uses PlayStation Move controllers.
Alt.GDC: Earth’s Digital Doppelganger
The Outerra engine has found a unique solution to the problem of generating massive, photo-realistic environments: Base them on real data from Earth. All of Earth.
Alt.GDC: Rocksmith FTW
In the spirit of our ongoing alt.GDC coverage, I thought I’d take just a second to talk about what looks, from my humble vantage, to be The Next Big Thing in video games.
Spray Paint Can, Deconstructed in Lego
Lego builder Cole Blaq, whose exploding paint can model wowed us last year, continues his (apparent) obsession with spray paint cans with Decode, in which a robotic arm apparently tinkers with the guts of a spraycan, the inside of which inexplicably looks like DNA! Be sure to check out the rest of Cole’s Inside the […]
Customize Replacement Parts with 3D Printing
German maker Thorsten Wilms wanted to add a nice headlight to his new bike, but a couple of cables got in the way of a clean installation. He ordered a new clamp to compensate for the cables, but it ended up positioning the business end in the opposite direction. So he did what everyone with […]
Night Biking Gloves
Cool wearable tech from Irene Posch of Fashioning Technology. The wool gloves have conductive fibers knit into the fingertip and palm areas. Making a fist closes a circuit and lights up the LED arrows on the backs of the hands. 3V coin cells are accessible, but concealed, at the glove cuffs. The conductive thread in […]
