The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
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 […]
In response to the Arduino pong post from a few days ago, SynOptx shared their 2-player PONGuino game.
MAKE subscriber James Jamison writes in to share his DIY rudder pedals.
For a limited time, Cabaret Mechanical Theatre is offering a free download of an eighteen page booklet by famed automata-maker Paul Spooner. This is a great resource for the mechanically-curious and must have for automata-makers.
Make: Online reader skatronix saw the modded bikes I posted earlier and left a comment describing his own whip: me and my dear friend olegtron decided to build a three wheeler that contains all sorts of electric equipment for making electronics on-road. It contains a 12V car battery( +solar panels) to run all electronics like […]
AFOL Guy Himber, whose innovative use of Lego elements has appeared in Make: Online twice before (links below), has done it again with this excellent, life-sized steampunk ray gun. If you like this, be sure to check out his similarly-themed Infinity Rifle. Lovely work as usual. More: Bionicle griffin makes fantastic use of biopunk parts […]
I found these two bikes in the MAKE Flickr pool: The top photo shows a folding bike with an “electric push trailer” — a $75 e-bike conversion kit turned into an electrically-powered trailer. Neat idea! The bottom photo shows a standard mountain bike that some maniac has hacked to run via gas engine. What have […]
