The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
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!
The Netherlands’ Eindhoven University of Technology is developing ROILA, a spoken language designed to be easily understandable by robots. The number of robots in our society is increasing rapidly. The number of service robots that interact with everyday people already outnumbers industrial robots. The easiest way to communicate with these service robots, such as Roomba […]
The dutch have long ago perfected a design known as the Bakfiets (“box bike”) for transporting cargo. These literally are the SUVs of Holland; Dutch moms even use these to carry their children to school. I thought about it, and the design seemed perfect for my needs. In short, the design is a two-wheel bicycle, […]
Born on this date in Budapest in 1944, ErnÅ‘ Rubik (Wikipedia) would go on to invent, in 1974, a classic mechanical puzzle, originally known as the “Magic Cube,” that would eventually become an icon to an entire–and pivotal–generation of young geeks. Today Rubik is 66. Boldog szuletesnapot!
Summer is here, and I was looking for something to do with the kids. They raved about how much fun the rocket launching was at Maker Faire in San Mateo, and I wanted to bring a little bit of that fun home. All I needed to do was build my kids a kit version of Rick Schertle’s compressed air rocket launcher that was featured in MAKE Volume 15.
The Internet Chess Table is a project for playing internet chess on a 3D board with real pieces. For the display, a small DIY 20W-LED low-resolution (64x64px) LCD projector was developed. It is used for displaying the move of my opponent as well as to show me information about the game (e.g. time). Moreover, there […]
