The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
OK, obstacle “reflectance” might be a better term, since this Lego Automatic Synchro Drive from YouTuber xyzzzach bounces off of obstacles, rather than actually avoiding them. But its design is so clever it deserves a bit of nomenclatural slack, IMHO.
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Former CRAFT author Lindsay Brown recently acquired her childhood camel rocker from her mother’s house. I like how the curves on the camel body are portions of concentric circles, drawn with the help of a nail and string, radiating out from the camel eye. Psychedelic rocking camel by B.C. artist/novelist Jim Willer, handmade in the […]
I love Sebastian Bergne‘s Lego Greenhouse… The Lego Greenhouse is a functioning greenhouse built entirely from Lego; the walls, the floors, even the earth is Lego. The plants and vegetables growing inside are however, entirely real. [Via MocoLoco]
I was taken by your Tamiya nomination for The Makeys, as I had a ball making something quite different from one of their kits. I was driving to a hobby shop (no surprise there!) at lunch one day. When I pulled into the parking lot of the strip mall, I saw what looked to be an electric bug making large and speedy circles on the asphalt.
Lew Frauenfelder had dreamed of owning a classic Whizzer motorbike since he was a young maker. Now retired, when he came across a link to bikemotorkits.com, he decided it was time to realize his dream and build a knockoff. Lew shares his build tale with us in MAKE Volume 26, the Karts and Wheels issue. […]
Eli Moss wrote in to let us know about his tree-filled bike frame with laser-cut decals.
