Bike rack hack
Maker and avid bike hacker Antoine was inspired by this Incredible Rim Rack instructable enough to go and build this very elegant bike rack out of a broken U-lock and busted rim.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Awesome GBC (great ball contraption)
This gigantic Mindstorms robot is quite possibly the most skillfully designed I’ve ever seen. There are at least ten different subsystems that deserve their own posts — I especially love the many ball-elevating systems, particularly the one that sorts soccer balls into one channel and basketballs into the other. GBCs are collaborative building projects where […]
Rock Band stage kit controlled by a .NET-powered micro
This project demonstrates how to use the Xbox Rock Band Stage Kit with Micro framework using GHI’s USB Host feature….no Xbox is necessary!
Augmented reality without programming in five minutes
A somewhat cryptic but fascinating tutorial on AR using Quartz Composer. [via Beyond The Beyond]
Modular marble run with marble pump
Matthias Wandel, whose Marble Adding Machine was featured in MAKE: Volume 20 and whose homemade bandsaw appeared on Make: Online last month, is up to his usual shenanigans with a modular marble run featuring an excellent marble pump. Interested in building your own? Wandel is selling the plans for fourteen bucks. [Thanks, Don!]
Science-themed Tarot deck
Logan Austeja Daniel, Martin Azevedo, and biochemist/jeweler/entrepreneur Raven Hanna of Made With Molecules are the brains behind this beautiful deck of Tarot cards with scientific themes. Suits were commissioned from five different artists: Janelle Schneider (Wands), Kristy Whitehouse (Pentacles), Shari Arai DeBoer (Swords), Tammy Stellanova (Cups), and Kris Johnson Michiels (Major Arcana). The deck’s gonna be available for sale soon, but the exact date is TBA. You can sign up to be notified by e-mail here.
Lego DNA model
The Brothers Brick editor Nannan Zhang, a med student at Washington University in St. Louis, created this DNA model out of Bionicle claws in honor of his research mentor’s 60th birthday. He also created another excellent DNA model that even has a secret message in the helices. [via The Brothers Brick]