The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Teri from Giddy Giddy shares how she created this simple and charming twirly toy over on Book Hour Craft Projects. A little experimentation with wire, one of my favorite mediums, had my children in awe. I’ve made a number of things for them, but this simple toy impresses them most because it is set in […]
This is an experiment with Kinect and Processing. People in front of it are posing like Han Solo and get frozen in 3D. We are already exporting the 3D models for 3D printing. So stay tuned. The software will be open source soon if anyone is interested. [Thanks, Michael!]
Don’t forget that the drawing for two copies of Chris Nodder’s book, The Little Book of Bike Boo Boos, ends tonight at Midnight PDT. To be eligible, go to the giveaway post and leave a bike-related question or answer. The comments on the post are great, with Chris and other bike know-it-alls helping out the […]
Clever idea from Etsy seller oopsmark. Perfect for hauling around your ships-in-bottles. Or, I dunno, bottles of wine or something. If you’re a weirdo. [via Dude Craft]
Art on your head with these beautiful hand-painted bike helmets.
Need a Jell-O toy fix next month? Look no further than crafty gal My Paper Crane’s new Kid Robot line, Yummy Dessert. Some of Heidi Kenney’s most well-known designs appear to be featured in this keychain line. My personal favorite has to be the Jell-O mold. I don’t know about you, but my keys could […]
We hope you enjoyed this month’s Bike Shop theme and Skill Builder series. As with all of our Skill Builder sets, we’ll continue to add content going forward, and we always have great ongoing bike coverage under our Bicycles content category. Thanks to Chris Nodder and to RadBrad and KoolKat of Atomic Zombie for helping […]
