The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Deep Green, the pool-playing robot from the Robotics & Computer Vision lab at Queen’s University has been making the rounds on other websites recently. Its robot arm uses a huge gantry to move anywhere over the table, and then a special cue stick tool to hit the ball. It’s hugely impressive, but the size and […]
If you are clinging to Lego as the last uncorrupted innocence of your childhood, look away! This is creepy stuff, and at any other time of the year would be totally inappropriate content. Ain’t Halloween great?
Ty over at ThinkGeek hipped us to their latest custom product, which is a T-shirt with a Lego-compatible baseplate attached to the front so you can build stuff on it–murals, spaceships, chunky boobs, whatever floats your boat.
From the MAKE Flickr pool For the first assignment of his Intro to Physical Computing class, Greg rigged up a couple of conductive matchbox cars to act as a switch – lighting their moment of impact. Read more over at Ideas for Dozens.
If you have a game, but no ball, and the closest sporting goods store is miles away, what are you going to do? Make one, of course!
Fantastic Toys is offering up five free paper toy downloads, including this wee gnome bowling set (look out, guys!). There are paper dolls, a paper mobile and more in the set of free toys.
Christie at Childhood 101 made a DIY kids kitchen for under $10 using materials she had around the house or purchased at the hardware store.
