The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Custom electric guitar build by Travis S., incorporating an original Millennium Falcon toy over a hard maple backing block attached to a purchased neck black. I especially like the light-up engine blocks. More details are available here. [via Neatorama]
Here’s a clever idea I’d love to see liberated from its high-design context by the maker community: Sports equipment with integral POV displays. These ping pong paddles by Troika are an interesting start, but there’s all kinds of other onomatopoetic possibilities, like, say, baseball bats or tennis rackets that leave a glowing WHACK! in the air when you hit the ball. Personally, I want a set of boxing gloves that provide Batman-style comic book POW! and BAM! captions when I punch things. [via adafruit]
Amber Dusick shows you how she makes her beeswax wood polish that she uses as a toy sealer on the wooden toys she makes (woodmouse on Etsy).
From Trashbear Labs. Arduino-controlled, incorporating a whopping eighty-one tubes. More details available in a follow-up post here. [via Hack a Day]
Kip @ MAKE shows us how to construct a regulation size set of materials for playing the popular lawn game Cornhole in his Weekend Project video. His niece helped him sew the bags full of corn for tossing down the playing field.
Ryan O’Horo of New York, NY, built this 1/3-scale pinball machine running XP and a pinball emulator. Major Features: Custom Plywood Cabinet 19″ LCD 16:9 Display Speakers with Amplifier Backglass with LED Backlight Wrapped Cabinet Graphics LED Marquee Display Shooter Coin Acceptor Lighted Start Button Joystick and A/B Controls Flipper Buttons with Solenoid Feedback Accelerometer […]
JouleS THE ROBOT via . Joules exists because designing and making things is fun. Joules came from a challenge to build an electric tandem bicycle powered by actually pushing the pedals like a person. Fun kinetic design was part of the intent, practicality was not. Riding with Joules is a reminder that engineering and craftsmanship […]
