Fun & Games

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.

125-piece puzzle in 6 different metals with hidden “Golden Gun”

Michigan machinist GarE Maxton makes many different types of interlocking solid puzzles of this type, but this one, which is he calls Intimidator, is his masterpiece. Starting the disassembly process requires a special key. Once diassembled, about 20 of the pieces can be recombined to make a functioning single-shot pistol. Other parts of the puzzle separately and securely store “a customized set of tools, all necessary hardware, 45 caliber bullets, a standard sight, a laser sight, a cannister containing black powder pellets, a secure storage area for 209 shotgun primers, a spent primer removal tool and a ramrod for loading the bullets.”

Make: Kids: Lego project roundup

There’s a not-very-secret secret about Lego — adults like ’em just as much as kids do! So while we’ve assembled our ten favorite Lego inventions in honor of the month’s theme Make: Kids, all the projects are by adults. #10 Lego RC hand with exoskeletal controller #9 Lego NXT R/C boat #8 Lego Classic Space […]