The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, this cool set of five hand-painted Matryoshka dolls from user funnypolynomial. The tiny solder blob goes inside the diode goes inside the LED goes inside the resistor goes inside the capacitor.
Hobbyists looking for an official LEGO app to control their project are in luck. LEGO just announced their official NXT control app for the Android operating system. Called MINDroid, the app is available from the Android Market and will allow you to communicate with your creation over BlueTooth from your Android handset.
Get your needles and camera ready as the 4th Annual Mochimochi Photo Contest starts now and runs through November 15th. They’re looking for the cutest, most interesting photos of Mochimochi Land toys. Just upload your photo(s) to the Mochimochi Friends Flickr group before the deadline. More info and contest rules are on the Mochimochi blog.
Bumped into one of my new neighbors at the mailbox last week, and when I mentioned that I work for MAKE, she mentioned that her teenage son builds puzzles. Mechanical puzzles. Complicated ones. Turns out, he doesn’t just build them–he designs original configurations and sells them online. He’s got a following.
AFOL Peer Kreuger‘s fascinating Power Functions-enhanced “camera vehicles” are used as mini dollies to record videos of his Lego creations. UPDATE: Here are two videos of the result. Nicely done!
Software is a mix of computer instructions and data, but rarely do you get to see how the two interact in memory. Ben Fry visualized the code of several classic video games, giving insight in to the complexity of the code and how the programmer arranged the graphical elements. It’s also amazing how little was […]
Obviously, being a wiki, and a project platform for the entire MAKE community, anybody can submit a project to Make: Projects, even kids. Here, ten year old Ben Adase has created a post for his hovercraft build — the leaf blower, plywood, and plastic-sheet variety. I love that he used simple MS Paint illustrations for […]
