The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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
Make a creepy ghost phone that brings back the sounds of the dead. Get the PDF for this project here: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/05/weekend_project_ghost_phone_pdf.html
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Spin activated lights for your yo-yo.
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I love seeing someone transform an idea from one medium to another. That act is a form of collaboration, and it can happen across space and time, too. Face-to-face interaction is not always necessary. Take this fulled sweater stuffed tiger, by Craftster user ptarmic wumpus (Boulder, CO). Inspired by an old coloring book from the […]
