The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Stretta managed to build a fully functional (and apparently quite fun) foosball table from LEGO parts – My son is really attracted to foosball tables, and, if I’m honest, I’d have to say I am too. I considered the idea of buying a small, tabletop unit, but I was unsure how much use it’d see. […]
We never do the same thing twice, and the projects can be pretty stressful as we’re always taking a risk and sticking our necks out, often doing things that have never been done before. We also work with relatively small budgets. Luckily it’s almost always worth the hard work though.
The Maker scene and the general explosion in low cost high technology have been a huge inspiration to us. Many of the things we do would have been pretty much inconceivable ten years ago. It’s also important that we try to work with technologies that the world and his dog aren’t all trying to innovate with. So for example we’ve stayed away from augmented reality as pretty much everyone is trying to create something with those tools.
OK, Jay, this clip takes a bit of set-up. Basically, it’s a model of a factory-floor machine for moving pallet around a square assembly line. You put a pushing arm at each corner of the square and trigger them alternately in caddy-corner pairs. S
Inspired by Lenore Edman’s awesome D12 and D20 dice bags, Jessica Winter decided to make this D6 felted dice bag. Dice Bag Project More: Knit a pirate dice bag How-To: D12 and D20 Dice Purses How-To: Make a handbag of holding
It’s like a pop-up book, kind of, except way more complicated and expensive and made of Lego elements by YouTube user talapz. Words fail me, too. [via The Brothers Brick]
More Dorkbot Austin goodness! John Boiles demonstrated this radio-controlled car steered using his iPod’s built-in accelerometer via its built-in WiFi transceiver. All you have to do is tilt the iPod, and the car goes. It starts to move around 1:10.
Gordan Savicic and Gottfried Haider of DSbrut fame have tipped us off that they’ve just released their DS Bluetooth adapter for the Nintendo DS.
