NXT-Controlled Nerf Gun
Love this project by YouTube user wpavalko. Also see its assembly video. [Via The NXT Step]
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Bike With Pedal-Powered EL Wire
This summer I realized that you don’t need a driver to run your el wire if you’re putting it on a bike. I hooked a stepper motor up to a transformer from an old cell phone charger and it ramped up the voltage enough to light up my bike in real-time. It even fades on […]
Wireless Mesh Networking for LEGO Mindstorms
The NXTBee from dexter industries lets you connect to multiple NXTs and other devices using standard XBee radios. Now your NXT can talk to another NXT or an entire swarm.
Homemade Revolving Shotgun
From Home Gunsmith Forum user rhmc24: Using chambers cut off 12 ga. scrap barrels and a new $10 bbl for an Italian auto shotgun, the only other gun part is a scrapped hammer from a 1857 Remington perc revolver. Loads like a SAA Colt but underlever rotates and cocks it. Blow-by is negligible, hardly noticeable […]
Giant Outdoor Catan
A Burning Man project from 2007, the giant Settlers of Catan game now appears at various conventions and festivals.
Mechanical Pac Man
Toronto’s Jonathan Guberman loves his games. We’ve already seen his typewriter Zork and Game of Life monome. His latest project is nothing less than a mechanical Pac Man game. Still a work in progress, the plaque above seems to be a study of sorts. See Jonathan’s site for his build notes.
High Altitude Paper Airplanes
Project Space Planes is a publicity stunt, but a fun and interesting one at that. Launch 100 paper planes with a particular brand of memory cards containing messages sent in from people across the Internet on a high altitude weather balloon and see what happens. Well, it’s been a couple of weeks since they launched and results are still streaming in. Currently the list includes a number of unconfirmed reports of planes found in places like Germany, Australia, Russia, India, the Netherlands, California, Canada, and South Africa.
