How-To: Make little green army men from paracord
Instructables user seamster produced this cool little DIY-posable-army-guy tutorial for their ongoing Paracord Contest. It’s OD cord over a wire armature, with one foot glued to a cardboard base.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
LEGO minifig-scale Fallingwater
Croatian LEGO fan and architecture student Matija Grguric has made a name for himself with his meticulously-researched recreations of architectural masterpieces — his model of Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye made waves when he built it a couple years ago. Matija’s latest project, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, is built at 1:40 scale, uses 15,000 bricks, weighs […]
Speed Vest project build
One of my HacDC cohort, Erica Kane, did the Speed Vest project from MAKE Volume 19. We’re always thrilled when people do the projects in the magazine, document their builds, and share the results with us. Erica details her build on her family blog. She writes in email: As you suggested, I blogged about the […]
Virtual 3D “fish tank” box has screens all around
The brilliant (if perhaps poorly named) pCubee from The University of British Columbia’s Human Communications Technology Lab is exactly what it appears to be–a box with flat screens on 5 sides. Both the user’s position and the orientation of the box are tracked to provide a real-time, perspective-corrected illusion of 3D forms “inside” the box. I want one with an impossible pet inside, like a baby Totoro or something. [via Geekologie]
Elephant Push Toy
A couple years ago, I lived with some friends that had a baby boy. From the time he was six months old until he was a year-and-a-half, I became closely acquainted with the world of baby toys. Of course, he always wanted to be in my room drooling on my toys, but he had some […]
Aha! Puzzle This โ Spy Games
MAKEโs favorite puzzles.
Easter Guide at Woman’s Day
Take a peek into the Easter Guide at Woman’s Day for some fantastic Easter recipes and crafts. My daughter Chloe is nuts for bunnies so I’m eyeing to make this pink bunny knitting project so she can have a new cuddly friend for spring.
