The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Why not strap a monster crate motor onto a custom skateboard frame? If you did, would it be the fastest? That’s debatable. I say that the engine would tear the frame up and throw the rider before it could gain significant speed. Some would say that you don’t even need an engine to go fast on a skateboard. That didn’t stop the folks at V8 Supercars from Sydney, Australia from building their monster 630hp V8 Skateboard.
Man, and I thought the hacks on the Wii sensor bar came fast and furious. Amazing what people are doing with the Xbox Kinect and how viral all of these hacks quickly become. This one, an autonomous quadrotor, uses the Kinect Sensor for navigation and obstacle avoidance. It was done as part of the STARMAC […]
Instructables user j_l_larson writes: I have noticed a strange inequity between the poseability of girls and boys dolls. Most of the female dolls have stiff arms and legs which permit them to do little more than model clothing. To rectify this, I will attempt to turn a very cheap Dollar Tree girls ttoy doll into […]
By Kristin Roach Aww… so sweet when this little tiger kitty is sleeping, you better hope to never meet him awake. Don’t let that sweet sleepy face surprise you; he’s the fiercest little tiger I know. Materials 10g – Fingering Weight Yarn, Color A 10g – Fingering Weight Yarn, Color B 10g – Fingering Weight […]
Artist Chris Burden and a crew of eight assistants are in the midst of erecting his latest work, titled “Metropolis II”. Consisting of 1,200 custom die cast cars cycling across 18 lanes, Burden claims that 100,000 cars circulate through the miniature cityscape every hour.
Searching Flickr groups for “Lego” returns over four-thousand hits. Among the interesting oddities I’ve discovered so far is the LEGO Life-Size weapons group, which has 160 items. Shown here is M4 v5 by The Dawg’s Guns. There are also Lego knives, Lego bombs–even a wearable Lego Boba Fett get-up.
Tour around New York City via a RC plane (video)… via Twitter Team Black Sheep flying in New York, over the Brooklyn and Verazano Bridge, around Downtown Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty. Enjoy! How to build your own / FPV system information, camera and transmitter details, etc – here.
