The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
A steampunk style lighter in the form of a retro raygun. Get the PDF for this project here: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/weekend_project_the_raygun_pdf.html For more great projects go to http://www.makezine.com
I don’t think I’ve ever seen as unique a Lego creation as this “eco punk” mobile town, created by Dave DeGobbi. (Click for a bigger pic!) Crawler town roams the barren wastes of a post steam-punk world after cataclysmic climate change do to excessive coal use. Several such cities exist but Crawler town is the […]
Fra Fondi, of Hobby Media, writes: To celebrate the anime “Sora no Otoshimono,” which depicted hundreds of girl’s panties flying like birds, the Japanese company Questioners has produced a series of rubber-band powered Panty Ornithopters. On march 6th these flying pants will be liberated in the skyes of Akihabara during the model rocketry event “Sorafes” […]
From Boing Boing: Matt sez, “With that rocks-for-brains reporter in Boston trying to link campus shooter Amy Bishop’s crimes to Dungeons & Dragons, I thought I’d take an opportunity to look at the good D&D has done for several writers I know. This is that article. By the way, I’ve been a D&D player for […]
Ever wanted to make Lego soap? Rachel @ CRAFT writes: We are a big Lego-fanatic family, and it’s fun to find ways to work Lego into all aspects of our lives (not just playtime). This tutorial from Roots and Wings shows how to create a mold from Lego blocks that you can then use to […]
A so-called “stick bomb,” “frame bomb,” or (worst of all) “xyloexplosive device” (Wikipedia) is an arrangement of flat flexible beams, like popsicle sticks or tongue depressors, that are woven together under tension such that they can be “set off” at one point and sort of explosively disassemble starting at that point, with the reaction propagating away along the structure. Like domino toppling, but flashier.
PopSci has a good vide round of the 2010 ToyFair… I like the laser-harp-type thing… Say the word “toy” to a techie, and his mind will think one thing: robots. But all infrared-loving, artificially-intelligent smart-toy-ogling tech-savvy aside, new toys can instill as much “ooh! shiny!” as even the hottest cellphone. And we’re not just talking […]
