Doll Clothing Patterns
Even dolls need to be fashionable! I love Laura of We Wilson’s downloadable doll clothing patterns that are simple and fit standard 14″ dolls. Make shirts, dresses, and pants using scrap fabric or your child’s old clothes.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Fallout 3 replica helmet
Pretty impressive replica prop work from Josh Jay, posted by his buddy Chris Bartlett. Josh started with a folded-paper model. Detailed construction pics are available in Josh’s Facebook photo set. [via Gizmodo]
Dog Bus cargo bike
Portlander Drew Devereux scratch-built this swell cargo bike so his canine pal, Sadie, could come along on rides.
Kinect with Scratch
Kinect hacker Stephen Howell has been hard at work producing a number of short demonstrations showing the possibilities of using the Scratch visual programming language with a Microsoft Kinect controller. How-to and examples are available on his site.
Mindstorms speed alert
Dexter Industries, who build 3rd party sensors for Lego Mindstorms — including a GPS unit called the dGPS — built a NXT device that alerts a driver when he or she drives too fast. Download the NXT program file here. [via The NXTStep]
PS3 Root Key Found – is the Sony PS3 forever hacked?
Awhile ago, Sony removed the Linux support for the PS3 and recently the “root key” was posted online and it seems like it’s hacked for good, there’s a great post on reddit by defyallodds… When Sony creates a newer hardware revision with a different metldr key, they would have to issue 2 different firmware updates: […]
The brick thief
Enjoy this fine video, just try not to go around stealing Legos from kids and puppies, even if you know how to make them dance!