Pirate Dolls
These pirate dolls from Dee at Dee*Construction are both awesome and adorable. The bandana and mustache details absolutely made my day, and I can think of an awful lot of guys in Brooklyn who just might need one of these!
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Acrylic Jenga Pistol
Good-looking clear plastic version of Matthias Wandel’s wooden Jenga pistol, from Instructables user Jayefuu. Jayefuu uses a laser cutter to make the flat parts, and the vector art is freely available.
The Thingiverse Cube Gears Phenomenon
This video of Thingiverse user dougc314′s motorized cube gears caught my attention, this morning, on one of my co-workers’ blogs. It’s a modification of user emmett’s much-copied screwless cube gears which replaces one of the corner gears with a motorized pedestal that constantly drives the geartrain, endlessly folding and unfolding the shape.
DIY $4 Grocery Panniers
A good set of bicycle panniers can cost a chunk of change, but if you’re thinking of heading to the store to pick up a few essentials they’re pretty indispensable. Check out these cheep and easy DIY bicycle panniers you can construct from a couple of reusable grocery bags, some masonite, and a bungee.
Cannon-Sized Slingshot Fires 80mm Steel Shot
For those of you without metric intuition, 80mm is about pi inches. For those of you without metric intuition who flunked geometry, it’s about 3.14 inches. Which am big. Like, cannonball-sized.
Your Name in Lego
Interesting notion for a Lego-based enterprise Eli Carter, who wants to sell you a custom-packed kit (complete with custom instructions) to build a Lego nameplate with text and colors of your choosing. Check it out at Brick-Built Nameplates.
DIY Nerf Gun Darts
Follow along as YouTuber freeridemtb2 shows us how to assemble Nerf Stefan darts using some poly foam caulk saver and a hot glue gun.