The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Make: Live 06 – Bikes, Basics to Extremes Wednesday April 13th, 9pm ET/6pm PT Watch at makezine.com/live or on UStream Please join us in the UStream chat or mark tweets with #makelive to interact live with the show. We also give away a fabulous prize from Digi-Key to one chat member who can solve our […]
This Kinect controlled AR Drone mashup from the folks at Ziekel Engineering looks like a load of fun.
I like this demonstration of an alternate input device by Paul Bishop. He built an Arduino light pen using an Arduino, television, and photoresistor. It works by displaying a series of flashing boxes on the screen, and using the photoresistor to measure if there was a change in the amount of light that it saw […]
17-year-old hardware hacker Tijmen Verhulsdonck of the Netherlands built this self-balancing robot with two Arduinos and a Wiimote. [Via Arduino blog]
California filmmaker Michael Evans likes to capture the beauty of workflow, what a craftsperson looks like when he or she is deep “in the zone” of their process. This video features the smooth moves of Sean Walling, owner of Soulcraft, a custom steel bicycle frame shop in Petaluma, CA. It documents Sean in the workshop […]
Andrew D. Carson of Glendale, Wisconsin, whose classic recycled recumbent build came in 3rd in yesterday’s roundup of most-trafficked recumbent bike posts, contacted us and asked that we post a more modern picture of his Mach 2 frame. Looks great, A.D.!
Nothing says spring like a kawaii amigurumi bunny! These bunnies are the perfect addition to a handmade Easter basket or a special gift.
