Nifty magnetic construction toy
While it doesn’t have anything to do with actual buckyballs, this set of 216 rare earth magnetic balls looks like a lot of fun. I just wish they didn’t cost $31 (with shipping). BuckyBalls [via Laughing Squid]
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Itty bitty Lego synths
Like tiny pixel synths made real, Beem Music shares pics of these super cute Lego synthstruments inspired by the previous paper versions. More to enjoy in the Flickr photoset.
Motion Plus and Nunchuck together on the Arduino
It looks like the Wii Motion Plus has been hacked so you can read the data via an Arduino. The build only requires about $4 in parts. Now that’s cheap! Check out the website for the schematics, code, and more information. Alright, one great aspect about the Wii Motion Plus is its pass through port […]
Online index of mechanical puzzles
John Rausch’s Puzzle World website showcases some incredible and ingenious objects from Rausch’s own puzzle collection, and from those of others. The site is divided into categories like interlocking solid puzzles, impossible object puzzles, sequential movement puzzles, etc. It’s a nearly inescapable click-trap. Shown here are two of my favorites, so far. Above is Stewart […]
How-To: Build a Lego microtome
A microtome is a laboratory machine normally used to slice extremely thin samples of soft specimens for optical microscopy. If you’re one of those folks who could care less about optical microscopy, it also has culinary applications. I quote from the sacred text of GoodFellas: In prison, dinner was always a big thing. We had […]
Star Wars AT-AT loft bed
Will you be MY dad? (How long do you think it’ll be though before a pillow fight turns ugly and that Styrofoam AT-AT head gets decapitated? Just sayin’) Star Wars Imperial Walker Loft Bed [via Boing Boing] More: DIY AT-AT Baby stroller – how it was made… All of our Star Wars make and craft […]
Workbench NES system
I don’t know how much work Miltron is going to get done in his shop, now that he’s built and installed this nifty little game system on his bench. It’s built using a NoaC (NES on a Chip) and a cannibalized PSOne LCD screen. Yet another use for The Maker’s Notebook — as a game […]
