Japanese Monster Kit by Hine
Feltresss and video maker Hine Mizushima made this charming Japanese Monster Kit and accompanying video. Love it! [via Make: Japan]
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
LEGO NXT audio sequencer
This audio sequencer from Damien Kee can be made with a standard LEGO NXT 2.0 kit and includes software and PDF instructions.
Beer bottles with tuning levels printed on labels
Delightfully clever marketing gimmick from designer Matt Braun, who’s made a beer label printed with a scale showing the relationship between the level of liquid in the bottle and the note that it makes when you blow across the top. Apparently Matt actually brewed a small batch of “Tuned Pale Ale,” and, thanks to the massively positive response his clever label is getting, has plans to brew some more. You can sign up at his website to be notified when it’s available for purchase, or you could try tuning some bottles of your own. Once you’ve figured out the levels for the notes, why not etch the scale into the glass?
Sound Bubbles
Musician and musical robot maker Charlie Williams created this fun art piece with a combination of OpenCV (an open-source computer vision toolkit that provides, among many things, facial recognition) and Processing. more info, including the opportunity to download the code and play with it yourself!
Shooting bullets through drops of water
Alexander Augusteijn takes high-speed photography up a notch with these photos of bullets shooting through droplets of water. Apparently all that is involved is lots of careful timing. [via Laughing Squid] More: Coilgun projectile photography Bullet impacts at 1,000,000 frames per second Exploding capacitors in high speed High speed glass breakage High-speed photo gallery Arduino […]
Minifig-scale Tron discs
Lego custom armorer BrickArms caught the Tron bug with these beautiful glow in the dark Lego-compatible discs! Inspired by TRON – my all time favorite movie of the 80’s, I designed and injected this glowing disc in the style of the identitty discs from TRON Legacy. It is injected with glow-in-the-dark ABS, and then overprinted […]
2 player PONGuino
In response to the Arduino pong post from a few days ago, SynOptx shared their 2-player PONGuino game.
