The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Instructable user Bruno created this fun real life Super Mario Bros. coin block, which pops out legal tender when it’s hit from the bottom. A 555 timer controls a servo motor to push the coins out of the top while an MP3 player plays the appropriate sound effect. Luckily for us, Bruno painstakingly detailed the […]
Sean’s posting of this week’s Flickr pool roundup, with the Homemade F-16 Simulator Cockpit, had me tripping off to numerous sites where people take their flight simulators very seriously. Check out this site, Viperpit.org, for some very tweaked out recreational flight simulators. Viperpit.org
Josh wanted to wander the streets of Chicago on his bike while ensuring he was heading in the general direction of his destination. He therefore created the MapBag, a LilyPad Arduino-based “proprioceptive augmentation device.” Here’s how it works: The MapBag contains a small microcontroller, a GPS chipset, and a series of 8 vibration motors sewn […]
Kudos to Mark Anderson, who made this incredible Lego spaceship alphabet: I was looking to create some Lego spaceships, but ran into a brick wall when it came to design. I mean what hasn’t been done to death already?! So, to kick start my creativity, I decided to do a scpaceship based on each latter […]
16th Century engraver Albrech Dürer created a famous image of a beetle, and AFOL Tyler “Legohaulic” Clites legoized it! Sweet.
It’s called “Double Happiness.” From Paris architect Didier Faustino. [via Dude Craft]
Don’t let the advertising-quality photography fool you: This is the work of an individual maker (specifically Matt of Wood&Faulk) who wants to share it with you just for the pleasure of sharing. Well, that and the traffic, probably. We all <3 the traffic. [via NOTCOT]
