Hanging Bat Mobile Pattern
Make your own hanging bat mobile using this pattern by Jen and Jake along with some fabric and a few branches.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Flashback: Playable Pac-Man Costume
For an 80s-themed Halloween party, I wanted a costume that was unique, incorporated technology, and would be fun for fellow partygoers. I’d been toying with the idea of making a mini arcade machine for my game room, so I decided to come up with one that I could also wear as my costume. What follows is a guide to making your own wearable Pac-Man that guarantees you’ll be the life of the costume party. It’s fun to build and to wear. And I’ve since converted it to a bar-top arcade machine, so this costume can play long after the Halloween parties are over.
Skateboard Tetris
True that San Francisco skaters have a reputation that precedes them with their home turf being some of the gnarliest urban streets in the country. Check out these 36 SF skaters on Freebords flexing mad skills with neon Tetris shapes mounted on their heads to awesome effect.
Square bike
Square bike… at the Math Midway (more photos)…
Crawling wooden automaton
A newly posted work from Japanese kinetic sculptor Osamu Kanda, whose elegant praying mantis automaton I blogged two weeks ago. This one is called Crawl. [via The Automata / Automaton Blog]
Genre-fiction generator
Dave Malki, who does the awesome Victorian-era webcomic Wondermark, has created a hysterical steampunky genre-fiction generator. Liam Cooke created an automated version of the chart. Here’s the story synopsis I got: The Psychopunks In a metaphorical Outer Rim world, a young milquetoast office drone stumbles across a time-traveling soldier which spurs him into conflict with […]
Buy wholesale Cthulhu and save
I just checked the freezer and discovered I was down to my last bag. Don’t let Halloween sneak up on you without stocking up.