The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Via Mister Jalopy and Dinosaurs and Robots (by way of Lenore Edman’s Twitter feed) comes this amazing bike project to create a cargo bike that actually comes apart so you can take the front assembly and basket into the store. Ingenious. And the build is well documented. Grocery Getter Contest Submission
Introducing the Rubix Cubewich. It contains cubes of pastrami, kielbasa, pork fat, salami, and two types of cheddar. What? No bacon? Found on the appropriately named Insanewiches site. The Rubix Cubewich
The folks at Ideo Labs celebrated the awesome hair of their intern, Alex, by modding a Diana plastic camera so that it adds his hair to whomever is photographed. They gave it to him as a going-away present. Modding a Toy Camera to an “Alex Cam” [Thanks, Dave!]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Jeff of the Mighty Ohm built this sweet interactive panel of lights, switches, & more for his nephew Harrison’s first birthday. What an awesome uncle! This would have been many times cooler than the Fisher-Price steering wheel most of us had as tots – I know my spaceship adventures would […]
This week’s flashback is one of my favorite pieces from the pages of MAKE, appearing in Volume 07 in August of 2006. It’s not so much a project as a call to action. Gever Tulley, founder of Tinkering School, strongly believes in the power of, well, tinkering, and its positive effects on the minds of children.
Eric Weinhoffer used his Makerbot to create this simple little puzzle. Files and instructions on Thingiverse. 7-Piece Block Puzzle Pieces
Ubiq_01 points out this vid demonstrating the use of a wiimote over iPhone’s bluetooth connections – The video first shows the iPhone’s AirPlane mode activated before starting an OpenGL-ES Demo. In the demo, the orientation of the virtual WiiMote is controlled by a physical WiiMote over a Bluetooth connection. For this demo, the portable Bluetooth […]
