A virtual dog for a real cat
Hans Ruber designed the virtual dog Miku for an installation, then set it up for his cat to play with.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Lego 1:40 USS Intrepid
Ed Diment is working on a minifig-scale aircraft carrier. The picture above shows an anti-aircraft battery — imagine the detail on the entire ship! The USS Intrepid is an Essex Class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy (USN). She is currently berthed in New York and serves as a museum, but had an operational […]
Sudoku puzzle solver using awk
The application I chose to use as an example is “yet another sudoku puzzle solver”. This program uses a very simple depth-first recursive backtracking algorithm with up-front and ongoing elimination of invalid entries.
Sean Kenney, professional Lego builder
Kenney was featured in a Japanese public television show, New York Wave. The crew followed me for several months and created this full-length episode that shows how I work and what I do. Watch as I create a giant LEGO model of Times Square, play with kids at events, and take on my biggest project […]
The Frustromantic Box: A reverse geocache puzzle
Mikal Hart’s original “reverse geocache” puzzle ended up making a big splash when we first posted about it last October. Now Russ Weeks has produced his own version using an Arduino, an HD44780 display, a servo, and an EM406 GPS.
Weekend Project: Rubber Band Power
Build a fun-for-all-ages mini car launcher for next to nothing. Get the PDF for this project here: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/12/weekend_project_rubber_band_power_p.html
More great projects at http://www.makezine.com.
Mind-melting jet model project
This 80+ page project doc, from a German maker, obsessively details every aspect of the construction of a scale model jet airplane, with working jet engines. The text is in German, but the images speak for themselves. Su27 Project
