How-To: Toddler’s Guitar Hero controller
What do you do when your toddler’s having trouble reaching the buttons on the guitar for Beatles Rock Band? Why, modify it and make an Instructable, that’s what! Toddler’s Guitar Hero controller
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Biking directions added to Google Maps
Biking directions added to Google Maps… here’s my route from Adafruit to NYC Resistor! Whenever I meet someone who finds out that I work on the directions team for Google Maps, the first question I’m asked is often “So when’s Google Maps going to add biking directions?” We’re big biking fans too, so we’ve been […]
Play rock paper scissors by yourself with this handy glove
Enjoy playing rock, paper, scissors, but having trouble finding worthy opponents to play it with?
Lego’s take on classic green army men
Lego’s licensing of Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story franchise has produced something surprisingly awesome in this mashup of two classic toys. $11 from the Lego shop. [via Geekologie]
Adam Savage’s Blade Runner Blaster
Mythretirer Adam Savage has a post up this morning on that one Boingy blog about the latest in his lifelong series of personal replicas of Deckard’s handgun from Blade Runner. There’s more shots of the build as well as pictures of the original prop and two of Adam’s earlier replicas. The very first one uses the famous contoured handgrip from Italian toymaker Edison Giocattoli’s TG-105 ‘Super Thur’ ray gun, which also appeared in a prop from Joss Whedon’s Firefly.
LEGO MINDSTORMS AlphaRex controlled by a Wii balance board
LEGO MINDSTORMS hacker Akihiro Uehara built an interface between an AlphaRex and a Wii Balance Board.
How-To: Make great big stuff
I’ve had this long-standing concept for a theme restaurant where everything–tables, chairs, utensils, food, condiment dispensers–is like 30% bigger than normal. The idea is to make you feel like a kid again. We’d call it “Tiny’s.” (And yes, we’re still seeking investors. Also waitstaff suffering from gigantism.) Look for one soon in a strip-mall near you. Believe me, you won’t be able to miss it.
In the meantime, if you just can’t wait for the experience, you could always start filling up your house with great big versions of the stuff you already have. Instructables has just posted a cool round-up of tutorials on how to do just that. Shown uppermost is user Tetranitrate’s giant match. And yes, as the middle photo shows, it does (or did) actually work. At bottom, last but in no sense least, there’s user indymogul’s giant sandwich, which I think was part of a Halloween costume or something. But who cares? Giant sandwich!
