The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Magic Vision Lab‘s weather simulator is great, but I think it needs an air conditioner slash personal sprinkler to make it more realistic. We examined a range of weather phenomenon and how they may be simulated in a mobile augmented reality system. ARWeather was developed and deployed on the Tinmith wearable computer system to enable […]
MAKE friend Dick Whitney wrote in to tell us about this sweet-looking trebuchet kit that’s looking for funding on Kickstarter. Started by Evan Murphy and Mike Woods, Seige Toys is hoping to round up enough supporters to open a workshop and produce the trebuchets in-house. It’s a very nice looking siege weapon, but I must […]
They call it “juggling,” which, I must say, in deference to all the jugglers out there: it ain’t. But “catch” is still an extremely impressive addition to the extremely impressive list of extremely impressive stunts which quadrotor UAVs have been pulling off recently. Filmed at the Flying Machine Arena research facility at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Zurich. [via adafruit]
John Boxall’s Tic-Tac-Toe game uses a Freetronics Eleven ‘duino clone, a Sparkfun LCD and a set of ScrewShields. [Via Dangerous Prototypes]
Really lovely work from Instructables user annahowardshaw. Kudos, madam.
akiyukyi’s brick sorter uses a digital scale and a webcam to sort bricks into broad categories like gears, Technic beams, plates, and so on. [Via The NXT Step]
By the crazy German mad scientists at Festo. SmartBird is an ultralight but powerful flight model with excellent aerodynamic qualities and extreme agility. With SmartBird, Festo has succeeded in deciphering the flight of birds – one of the oldest dreams of humankind. This bionic technology-bearer, which is inspired by the herring gull, can start, fly […]
