Name This Six-Legged Walker Toy
This video has been making the viral rounds today. It’s a sneak preview and a draft promo video for a six-legged robotic toy in development at Wow! Stuff. And the toy is definitely a wow.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Pneumatic Lego Arm
This impressive creation, by YouTube user sumthinelse5790, displays the entire range of motion of the human hand. So amazing! [Via Tinkernology]
How-To: Compressed Air Foam Systems
MAKE regular Mike Pantrey, aka Mrsuperpants, returns with this cool page about building on-the-cheap DIY versions of the commercial systems used to make foam and/or “snow” for video, photo, and event special effects. He describes three iterations of his homemade CAFS and a method for making colored foam. [Thanks, Mike!]
BrushBot
Learn to build the BrushBot Kit from the Maker Shed.
http://www.makershed.com/Build_your_own_scuttling_BrushBot_p/msbb.htm
http://makeprojects.com/Project/Building-BrushBot-Kits/77/1
OK Go Plays a Thousand Instruments with a Car
OK Go’s new video for the song Needing/Getting has the band playing a thousand instruments… with a car. Yep, they rigged up a Chevy Sonic hatchback with retractable pneumatic arms, then drove a course with specially tuned instruments at specific intervals while extending the arms to hit each in time with the song. This allowed them to capture both the video itself along with audio elements, which they mixed into the the final track. Elements of which were aired during the Superbowl as an ad.
Hiding a Bike Key on the Bike Itself
JaxPaboo, AKA Pat Booth of Odessa, FL, wrote an Instructable showing how to hide a bike key inside the fork of the bike, using a wine cork. (I wonder if painting the cork to match the frame would be a good idea?)
Synchronized Nano-Quadrotor Swarm
It used to be that having your own quadrotor drone was cutting edge. Now that the average joe can pick one up at their local mall for a couple hundred bucks means that you’ve got to step your game up if you don’t want to be seen as pedestrian. That’s why today’s aspiring UAV enthusiasts are working with swarms. Not just any swarms either, but swarms of nano-quadrotors. These days, budget conscious drone makers are going small to cut costs and shed ounces.