The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Shannon Larratt cast some ET rings from a mold made from a plastic toy. His fiance’s engagement ring is from Deadringer, so he wanted to stick with the theme and make E.T.’s head another adornment. He’s tried casting in pewter as well as a plastic with suspended nickel powder.
Niklas Roy has built an addictive-looking 70’s-style videogame system that is “controlerless” like an Xbox Kinect, yet charmingly low-rez like Pong. What I found interesting when I developed this game, is, that it could have been made already in the seventies. The technology that I used for it is (in a way) similar to what […]
Tim Goddard used Lego to masterfully recreate NASA’s Curiosity rover. Towards the end of 2011 NASA’s latest rover will be launched towards Mars. If all goes according to plan it will land in August 2012. This model is of the Curiosity rover as it will appear on the Martian surface; you can see the six […]
Holy moly this is just adorable for summer! There have been a ton of cute DIY toy kitchens around lately but this play grill from Oh Dee Doh is just too cute for words. I want a miniature grill I can put a fake steak on too!
Solid-gold DIY from Barcelona’s Abraham Neddermann, AKA “Dicecreator”, known here previously for his junk-built laser die engraver, as well as a bunch of sweet custom dice builds (below).
When I first saw this shot from user eqqman in the MAKE Flickr pool, my thought was, โOh, look, some tourist photographed a cannon in a park somewhere and tagged it for our pool. How odd.โ Reading the fine print, however, tells the story…
Lego NXT Wall-E transformable fully self controlled, it uses Lego Mindstorms programming environment. The video shows the transformation which is quite similar to the original Wall-E. See the maker’s Picasa gallery showing build photos. Note that, in typical Mindstorms fashion, the actual transformation takes 4 minutes. [Via Inhabitots]
