The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Maker Sebastian Dwornik needed a way to mount a mobile device to his mountain bike in order to field test some software he’d written. His solution, though crude, turned out to be quite effective.
And with this “Curiously Strong Trebuchet” I think we’ve reached some sort of unholy singularity where everything that can possible go in or on a mint tin has done so. Now I think we’re all going to die. The Curiously Strong Trebuchet: A Pocket Sized Medieval Siege Engine
That inner emptiness you’ve been feeling lately is probably due to the fact that you don’t own one of these.
It turns out the same dyes that work on computer parts also work on Lego bricks, which are also, in my experience, seemingly never available in the color you need. Lego purists generally frown on paints and adhesives, but frankly being an active builder can get pretty expensive pretty fast, and a lot of that […]
