Lego tea cups model
Adam Quest’s tea cup midway ride, featured at Brickfair ’10, is awesome in so many ways. Great model!
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Felt Food Roundup
Cassi at The Crafty Crow collected a variety of felt food tutorials from around the craft blogs and posted them beautifully into a handy visual photo album. These cute felt foods are a great gift for kids and their play kitchen.
Real R/C cars meet racing arcade action
Via the HacDC Blabber list comes this giddy-with-awesome cardboard racetrack with camera-mounted R/C cars and an arcade racing cockpit where the driver controls the vehicle. The builder, Malte Jehmlich, says he spent several months working on the project. It’s WipEout meets vintage R/C racing. I want! [Thanks, Daniel Packer!] Racer
1:1 Lego viola
Displayed at this year’s Brickfair conference in DC, this lovely viola is the work of AFOL Cindy English. [Photo by Joe Meno of Brickjournal.]
Faceted barrel d20
I love Abraham Neddermann’s Dice Creator’s Blog, full of his experiments with gaming dice. His most recent creation is a lovely hollow twenty-sider he calls Larry Niven’s d20. Today’s post, can be described as a truly “Concept Die”, like the concept cars you see on many auto shows. It comes as a solution to “The […]
Robotic ball rolls via phone control
Gearbox’s smartphone-controlled ball looks quite cool, offers much potential for creative game ideas – So basically how HTC/Android/Apple make smart phones, we make smart toys. Our first smart toy is a robotic ball that you can move by tilting your phone in the direction you want the ball to roll. We are then leveraging the […]
Hopworks Beer Bike
The Hopworks Beer Bike is a perfect storm. It’s the colmination of a love of craft and a deep respect for producing a quality product. Designed and built by Phillip Ross and Jamie Nichols of Metrofiets Cargo Bikes for Christian Ettinger of Hopworks Urban Brewery, the dual keg toting pub-on-wheels sports an aluminum pan with fifty feet of draft coil, two custom taps, inlaid old-growth woodwork bar with a split top for easy access to the kegs, an MP3 sound system modeled after a motorcycle’s hard pannier bag, and a back rack capable of holding three large pizzas for the unavoidable crowd that forms every time the bike stops.