How-To: Knit Baby Gators
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 …
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
New in the Maker Shed: Simon kit
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.
Lego recreations of De Stijl masterpieces
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!]
LegoAsimo: a bipedal Lego robot
Arno van der Vegt’s fascinating robot serves as more of a study of bipedal movement than a completed project. Get this, it packs fourteen NXT and Power Functions motors, 4 touch sensors, 5 tilt sensors, an ultrasonic sensor — and uses 3 NXT microcontroller bricks to run things. Yow! I’d be interested how much the […]
Rolling in a Zorb
Upon hearing about my most recent knee injury, MAKE (and CRAFT) contributor Andrew Lewis asked if I might consider “zorbing” (video) as an alternative mode of transportation. I had to look it up, and found out it’s a New Zealand-born “sport” of rolling down hills in a spherical plastic balloon, inflated with leaf blowers. It […]
Nexus One slot car controller
Mobile hacker Grant Skinner wires up a Nexus One to act as a controller for a slot-car racing track. Gotta love the rubber band petal simulator.
Weekend Project: Compressed Air Rocket
Blow your friends away as you send this 25-cent rocket hundreds of feet in the air. Get the PDF for this project: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/04/weekend_project_compressed_air_rock.html The rocket template is here: http://cdn.makezine.com/make/15/Rocket_Template.pdf More great projects at http://www.makezine.com
