The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
MAKE subscriber Jennifer Holt of Columbus, OH, wrote in to share her rather overpowered electric mountain bike, running on a 48V motor powered by a homemade battery pack consisting of 144 3.3V lithium ion cells. Data from the battery monitor is logged to an SD card. This is the second of the two electric bicycles […]
Fra Fondi sent us info on this awesome soccer (foosball) table, made entirely of Lego parts, and programmed and controlled (sounds, score-keeping) with the Lego WeDo kit. Sariel tells us that: “Counting the game score and returning balls to a box are both fully automated. The actual game remains, obviously, fully manual, with eight players […]
Boris Smus, a student at Carnegie Mellon, built this elegantly simple robot that uses a smartphone to interpret commands from Twitter. A few projects around the internet use an Android phone to control the Lego Mindstorms NXT brick. Most involve an ugly hack in which the phone communicates with a computer over WiFi, and the […]
Uppermost, what I’m pretty sure is a rendering of a virtual Lego model called Brick by Brick, by graphic designer Ian Leino. Immediately above, MC MECHANIC, by photographer Shane Willis.
Anna of Mochimochi Land is sharing a free pattern for these cute knit baby gators from her new book, Knitting Mochimochi. I love the idea of whipping up a whole batch of them to make some kind of baby gator attack scene …
You remember Simon, right? This through-hole soldering kit will bring back memories as you try to match the colored patterns. Plus, its ATmega168 microcontroller is re-programmable, so you can come up with your own games using the Arduino IDE and an FTDI board.
Dutch designers minale-maeda (Kuniko Maeda and Mario Minale) recreated De Stijl furniture designer Gerrit Rietveld‘s classic Elling Buffet and Red and Blue Chair. The buffet was a project for Droog, a design agency, with an edition of five created. The chair was created in 2004. [Via designboom, thanks Kevin!]
