The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
RadBrad and KoolKat, of Atomic Zombie, wrote this wonderful guide to the fine art of bicycle deconstruction. You can learn a lot about a machine by stripping it down to its constituent parts. And in this case, you end up with a lot of parts that you can combine with other parts to fab your […]
Thanks to a commenter on last week’s Now That’s A Knife post for pointing out that Jeremy Hanson’s Spudgun Technology Center has a custom machine for rifling PVC pipe to make more accurate barrels for potato cannon. They sell several varieties of rifled PVC (including clear) in assorted lengths. The way I hear it, the rifling machine was first designed and build by STC founder Ed Goldmann. [Thanks, Bryce Bell!]
Rainbow cakes have been so popular recently, here’s one you can make that is definitely fat free – this crochet rainbow cake slice by Genuine Mudpie.
These are from deviantART user dkart71. Back in 2007, we covered similar work from a Brazilian artist who goes by Blancosur. [via Boing Boing]
This video from YouTuber akiyuky is close to 8 minutes of heavy duty LEGO automation that will almost certainly suck you in. Colored balls are hurried along the machine using over twenty GBC modules of varying complexity. Watch as they’re swept, shoveled, screwed, and pumped while being sorted, combined and placed on various transport mechanisms.
Although I can’t say I’d care to try, or can in good conscience recommend, that trick where you let go of the handlebars at speed and sit upright in the saddle with your hands at your sides, this video from Ira Flatow’s Science Friday helps explain why it works. [Thanks, Laura!]
The open source Video Game Shield from the Maker Shed allows you to create your own games, graphics, text, sound effects, music, and more on an Arduino! Make awesome black-and-white video games that you can play on your TV! It supports up to two Nintendo Wii Nunchuck controllers for an easy, and familiar, interface. Note: […]
