How-To: Make Beeswax Wood Polish
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).
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Nixie-tube sudoku board
From Trashbear Labs. Arduino-controlled, incorporating a whopping eighty-one tubes. More details available in a follow-up post here. [via Hack a Day]
Cornhole Lawn Game
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.
Third-scale pinball emulator
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 – Robotic tandem bicycle partner!
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 […]
Jeri’s jumbo joystick
Our intrepid pal Jeri Ellsworth is at it again. Recently, she attended the Extreme California, the big arcade and pinball machine meet-up. Always following her own “Did you bring a hack?” ethos, Jeri whipped together this awesome, jumbo joystick, using parts from a plastic dome lamp, PVC pipe, some other home store parts, and lots […]
Impressive collection of cargo bikes
Impressive collection of cargo bikes. Alan writes – …a report from the edges of human-powered conveyance, where pedal pushers are hauling car- and pickup-worthy loads on cargo bikes and trikes. The ingenuity evident across the Northwest and the world in finding practical, nonmotorized solutions to the daily challenges of urban mobility is heartening, even inspiring. […]
