Lego Omniwheel Clusters
Shown here is a later-stage prototype in engineer and hobby roboticist Xander Soldaatโs development of a Lego holonomic drive platform using native Lego system components for the omnidirectional wheels.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Lego Robot Draws What You Look At
An eye-tracker records the movement of the visitor’s eyes while looking at photographs of different objects. A robot hanging from the ceiling on top of a large pile of paper makes one dot for every point the visitor has just been looking at. This results in large scale images showing how the same objects have been perceived differently.
Bike Lock Lifts Your Bike Out of Reach
The wildly popular video of this German bike lock prototype blew me away. Clamp your bike to the motorized unit, and it scurries up a lamp post, securing your bike in the sky
Lego Carpentry Tools
AFOL Marion (aka Brixe63) built these realistic Lego tools. My favorite detail is the way she used trans greenish yellow elements to form the level’s bubble.
Spray Painting with a Skateboard
Considering how upset he was by a relatively tiny bloodstain, that guy from Gleaming The Cube is gonna be livid when he sees what these young punks have done to his pool. Appears to be, at least in part. the work of London based street artist D*face.
Printable Nunchuck Pen Caps
From Thingiverse user PrintTo3D, who calls them BicChucks, and was inspired by a set of pen-cap cutlery attachments from lusofer.
How-To: Plush Facehugger Buddy
From Instructables user Kaisei13, who writes: “My daughter is obsessed with the AvP game. She has beat it at least 20 times and loves to run around the house hissing and trying to run up walls like a Xenomorph. So for her 8th birthday…”
