The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Kate on mini-eco has a nice little list of ingredients that will work as natural dye for homemade playdough. Turmeric, oak tree bark, raspberries… They create such pretty colors! She shares her playdough recipe too.
Build a simple device that exhibits chaotic behavior and makes an excellent science project or conversation starter.
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Make your own Cornhole boards and bags. Cornhole is a fun summertime lawn game where players take turns throwing corn filled bags at a raised platform with a hole in the far end.
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The Lego NXT Wall-E transformable robot is fully self controlled It uses Lego Mindstorms programming environment. It is for all I know the first Lego build look-alike wall-e which is capable to transform automated. This transformation is quite similar to the way the original wall-e does it. [Via The NXTStep]
I haven’t much use for those fancy new “Air Multiplier” bladeless fans by British entrepreneur James Dyson, but this publicity stunt, in which dozens of the units are used to guide a neutral-buoyancy balloon around a complex warehouse “race track,” is admittedly pretty cool.
Bike hacker Peter Wagner, whose work has graced this blog a zillion times, has created this aquatic(?) bike equipped with flippers for driving through water and mud. Stock fork surpassed by adding rear 2/3’s of a full suspension mountain bike as the springer front end. Double rimmed drum brake 16″ laced to 26″ alloy, get […]
In honor of Bastille Day today, we’re showcasing these adorable crochet macarons by Alicia Kachmar. Whip up a batch with her free pattern that is surely calorie free. Viva la macarons!
