The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Will Gorman of Orlando, FL, wrote in to share his nicely executed skill crane that uses NXT and RCX bricks, touch sensors, and servos as well as over 600 Lego elements. My son was inspired by Toy Story and asked if we could build a Lego Claw. The skill crane uses the NXT to drive […]
Playing a game on the Wii with one hand is a major selling point of the system. However, what if you don’t have a Wii or would like to play some of your older games? Dutch hardware hacker Hasse’s brother can only use one hand, so Hasse decided to remedy the situation by successfully modding a standard two-fisted controller with an accelerometer.
Check out this time-lapse installation video of a gigantic sculpture of a soccer player by Ratfliffe Fowler Design for Nike. Each voxel in this hanging sculpture is a soccer ball.
Brandon Griffith of Los Angeles’ Lego User Group LUGOLA built this mind-boggling Lego chess set with the pieces depicting characters and scenes from Episode V. My favorites are the mini dioramas detailing the bishops: bounty hunters and Han-in-carbonite for the Empire, Chewie w/busted C3-PO and Lando with his Bespin cronies for the Rebel Alliance. The […]
Marcelo Souza of São Paulo, Brazil, dropped us a note to share his cool tabletop arcade machine emulator. I’ve spent the last Months building this MiniArcade. I’ve made 2 Videos of it. One of the process and one of the GamePlay. It has a unique optical Sensor to get the coin Credits, develped by me […]
I guess Precious didn’t want AJ the Fiesta having all of the telemetric sensing and twittering vehicular fun. Precious was created as a “smart” bike that can carry his rider, Janeen, across the US to raise money to benefit LIVESTRONG. Precious is outfitted with an array of sensors and a microcontroller, and like AJ, the […]
The latest issue of MAKE, Volume 23, has the easiest plans yet for a machine that turns itself off, and does nothing else (except inspire a cult following). Flip the device’s toggle switch on and a wooden arm emerges, switches it back off, and then disappears inside again. The article was based on a runaway […]
