Make Money — Scrabble
Sometimes it costs more to buy it than to make it from the money itself.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Rendering Kinect data in MineCraft
Kinect hacker Nathan Viniconis has been feeding Kinect data into MineCraft with some rather impressive results. The process, which is still manual at this point, creates motion by rendering each frame independently and then combining them to produce a seemingly realtime video. Supposedly there is an automated version in the works.
Laser-cut interlocking Settlers of Catan tiles
Clever idea from Thingiverse user jmne. I like the art he’s chosen to represent each of the various resources. He’s also produced a version in transparent red acrylic. I’ll be interested to see how this idea evolves.
In the Maker Shed: XGS AVR 8-Bit development system
The XGS AVR 8-Bit system was developed to be a very competitive entry/midrange development kit for the Atmel ATmega644 AVR processor with 64K FLASH, 4K SRAM, and running at 28+ MIPs. The kit includes everything you need to get started developing applications on the very popular platform.
Learn how to screenprint your own t-shirts
In this podcast, Bre brings in Matt, the screenprinting expert of etsy.com, to the Weekend Projects podcast.
Have you ever wanted to create your own t-shirt designs? Look no further! Don’t forget to go and download the pdf to get all the details and supply lists. https://makezine.com/podcast
Robot Race and Nitinol Lightswitch – Weekend Projects
Ever since I heard about Nitinol, a shape-changing metal alloy, I’ve been wanting to play with it. In this video, I make a completely functional, but completely unnecessary lightswitch, put together a nitinol robot kit, an inch-bot and have a robot race!
Make Shadow Puppets! Weekend Projects
In this Make Podcast, I teach you how to make shadow puppets with paper and polycarbonate!