The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
YouTuber SaskView is doing alright with this stunt: He’s coupled two Most Useless Machines together with a bar, at the switches, and turned them loose against one another. The result is highly amusing to watch (500K+ views so far), even without the whole “it’s a metaphor for the two-party system” bit. [via Boing Boing]
David Ye of hacker collective Split Reaction (who built the fully automatic BB gun we posted earlier this week as well as helped build the Mega Claw featured in the World Maker Faire) created a nichrome wire cutter, using an unlikely material for the frame — Lego. Lego bricks are great for making models, but […]
Holy smokes. My personal post-Halloween costume timer officially expired yesterday, but I had to make an exception for this work of art from “friend of a friend” of Redditron This_comment_has. So. Awesome. [via Boing Boing] More: Behold Your Doom: Children’s battle mech Real-life mech awakens, emits flame from appendages Star Wars AT-ST (Chicken walker) costume […]
Shawn Thorsson, of Petaluma, CA, has done it again. We wrote about his Predator costume a few weeks back. Now he’s made a whole freaking army, or at least a squad, of Red vs. Blue Master Chief costumes. A three year effort. Insane, indeed. And by insane, we mean awesome! [More pics after the jump] […]
Made from a bicycle rim, a length of corrugated plastic hose, a bunch of BBs, and a cymbal stand by Instructables user rhoddity.
The open source, and now back in stock, Video Game Shield from the Maker Shed allows you to create your own games, graphics, text, sound effects, music, and more on an Arduino! Make awesome black-and-white video games that you can play on your TV! It supports up to two Nintendo Wii Nunchuck controllers for an […]
I love this gaming cockpit that stows away in an ottoman, posted to an Australian overclocker’s forum. The builder writes: Wanted to make it fully adjustable for other people to be able to use, therefore the seat, gearstick and steering wheel all push forward and are locked down with wing nuts and pins. The dimensions […]
