The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
We haven’t heard much from Jared Bouck, of Invent Geek, recently. But he wrote in to tell us that he’s released free downloadable plans for his paintball turret gun.They also now have a kit available. Paintball Turret Plans More: Paintball turret gun
From the MAKE Flickr pool Wow – feeling pretty lucky I don’t share a workplace Flickr member zomie84 and his cubicle crossbow – Designed to shoot marshmellows, pens, or just about anything you can fit in it to attack your cube mates. I can get about 25ft with a bic pen. The trigger is spring […]
Star Simpson came up with this awesome plane-sleeping “hack.” She outfitted a pair of kid’s water wings with sheaths sewn from old T-shirt fabric. Looks comfy to me! Sound Sleep on a Long Flight
Del Cruiser has been working on building a “bakfiets” (box bike/cargo bike) from junked bikes and parts. He’s keeping a photojournal of his progress on Flickr. This project was inspired by the “Carrier Pidgeon” , which is a chinese-made imitation that has a shorter payload. By nature, bakfiets take some time getting used to due […]
The folks at Hobby Media sent us this item: V8 Supercar driver Rick Kelly is a R/C model cars fan and he recently built the Red Bull Mojet T40, a 1:10 scale replica of the Thrust SSC machine that set the World Land Speed Record on 15 October 1997. This R/C car is powered by […]
Rubber-power.com has some really nice, quick and easy-to-build rubber-band-powered model planes designed by MAKE subscriber Darcy Whyte. There are free, downloadable instructions on the site and info and video on building, flying, and repairing these simple model planes. Model Airplane Power by Elastic Rubber Band
In response to our post of the “BuckyBalls” magnetic beads, Mister Zed pointed us to this cool Bill Beaty demo of super magnetic beads and the behavior of their magnetic fields in loops and chains. Bill also shows how you can make a simple compass with the magnets. Lots of other cool info and vids […]
