How-To: Date Stamp Wrapping Paper
Create your own cool, retro wrapping paper using a vintage date stamp.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Gyroid Magnetic Assembly Blocks
A work-in-progress from Thingiverse user searchresults. Each block has twelve 3mm supermagnets installed around its six edges, their polarities alternating so they will click together.
George “geohot” speaks and Sony’s own infringements
Two updates to our Sony article “Sony’s War on Makers, Hackers, and Innovators”. First, I sent George Hotz an email asking what he thought about the article and if he had anything to add, we also had a reader email that was pretty interesting.
EEG-controlled wire flight
I totally want to try this. Yehuda Duenyas, AKA XXXY, is an MFA student in RPI’s MFA program. His project, Ascent, uses EEG controlled performer flight as its centerpiece. Lauren controls her “ascent” by concentration read by an Emotive EEG headset.
Bike-Mounted Rainbow Graffiti System
[via The Donut Project]
DIY Homebrew Video Game Cartridges
Got an old Colecovision gathering dust? Don’t give up on it, MAKE contributor Joe Grand (of hacker con badge fame) has detailed instructions on creating your own video game cartridges. In 2001, I wrote a homebrew game for the Atari 2600 called SCSIcide. I created a custom PCB to allow me to make my own […]
How-To: Simple Wooden Tops
Kleas shows you how to make your own simple wooden tops using wooden wheels and dowels, a pencil sharpener, paint, and sandpaper. A fun toy to make in less than 10 minutes! [via The Crafty Crow]
