Lego Terminator bust
Kudos to Martin Latta for his excellent Lego T-800 bust, which so brilliantly captures the essence of the movie robot. The skeleton greebles in the base are a clever touch. [Via The Brothers Brick]
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Hovering flapping flight of a 3D-printed mechanical insect
Charles Richter and Hod Lipson created this sweet little flapper that is so robust it can stay in the air for over a minute. This project has focused on developing a flapping-wing hovering insect using 3D printed wings and mechanical parts. The use of 3D printing technology has greatly expanded the possibilities for wing design, […]
How-To: Add headphones to your Bop It
The Bop It memory toy has seen many iterations, always with neat triggers. It’s a fun toy, especially for those with a more tactile memory (I was always great at Bop It and terrible at Simon). But the thing is annoying as hell unless you’re the one playing it, so Instructables user jzzsxm added a […]
Rockets of the world
This is an illustration from physics professor Peter Alway’s 1995 book Rockets of the World. That little black-and-yellow smudge in the second row, that’s the V-2. Hit the jump for mega-size. Click on the picture to zoom or download the full 3,322รโ5,079 image here. It’s quite amazing what a monster the Saturn V still is, […]
Felt Magnetic Katamari Playset
Before receiving Moxie’s book, I Felt Awesome, I had never seen her magnetic Katamari Damacy playset! The prince’s ball has magnets in each white nub for attracting small toys fitted with paper clips or jump rings. The video demonstration features the a cappella vocal stylings of Mr. Paul Palinkas, whose rendition of the Katamari theme […]
Netduino-powered Tron: Legacy Identity Disc mod
David Powell, Jeremy Ashinghurst, Paul King, and Jason McMahon from the Harford Hackerspace in Baltimore have rebuilt/repowered a Tron Legacy Identity Disc using a Netduino (adding lots of extra LEDs in the process). They’ve posted a complete project writeup at Coding4Fun
OpenKinect-powered virtual floor piano
Or desk piano, for that matter. No actual keyboard required. Gotta say, choosing Thelonious Monk or whomever that is riffing away on the soundtrack is a bit disingenuous, as the virtual keyboards shown in the infrared footage don’t even have semitone keys. According to YouTuber petermmoz’s first comment, however, the software does actually include the “black” keys; they’ve just turned them off to make it easier for beginners to play. [via Boing Boing]
