Endangered Lego creatures invade zoo
Lego artist Sean Kenney’s latest creation is a series of over 30 endangered animals, called Creatures of Habitat.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Data-logging shirt for analyzing baseball biomechanics
Elbow injuries suffered by pitchers in Major League Baseball occur frequently and result in tens of millions of dollars in losses each season, representing the money that must be paid in salaries to pitchers who cannot perform due to injury.
“No single device for measuring the quality of pitching mechanics currently exists, so we have proposed a shirt that is lightweight and can be worn during bullpen sessions or exhibition games,” said Moche. “The shirt can be used to show when a player becomes fatigued and his mechanics worsen, through a display of real-time information on a monitor in the dugout.”
Charles Platt at Space Access ’10
MAKE Contributing Editor (and author of Make: Electronics) Charles Platt just filed this little report from the commercial space conference he’s covering for us. — Gareth The Lynx suborbital spaceplane from XCOR I’m attending the Space Access ’10 conference in Phoenix, Arizona, with the intention of writing about some particularly exciting ventures for a future […]
Brett and Sarah Peterson’s bike dashboard
Brett and Sarah Peterson won Nokia’s Push N900 “Mod in the USA” competition with his bike dashboard: Way back in September I heard about the Nokia PUSH N900 global competition. I had been drooling over pictures and all the info I could find about the phone and thought, “Finally! This is my chance to get […]
Wicked robosculptures
These are the work of Lubbock, Texas artist Dustin Wallace. Above is Homage 1.0, shown in both humanoid and jet transforms, and below, Homage 2.0, featuring extra-wicked elbow knives.
Sparebots par excellence
The idea of makin’ little dudes and dudettes from your leftover components is not new to us, but rarely have I seen it done with such élan as in these examples from Flickr user(s) Lenny&Meriel. There’s tons more! [via MAKE Flickr Pool]