The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
I was disappointed to see this chalk-printing trailer, for the riders in the Tour de France, is towed behind a truck, not a bike like it’s predecessor. It looks like it works pretty well, though. The main problem with the original Bikes Against Bush prototype was the huge computer that had to be lugged around […]
Erica points out this early 80’s profile of artist/engineer Remo Saraceni on Omni Television. You’re likely familiar with at least one of Saraceni’s playful inventions – he created the “Walking Piano” played by Tom Hanks in Big, plus a bunch of other fun pieces of tech.
Justin Huynh sent in this: At Maker Faire a couple weeks ago, Matt and I showed off the Open Source Gameboy and OpenBerry, and in the tradition of hacking together arduino versions of cool handheld gadgets, Matt put together the Open Source PSP with two player ping-pong on it. It’s got two inputshields and a […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr member lovro made clever use of a portable game board/case as an ESD safe wallet
A look inside of the fireworks and how they go about painting the sky with fire, light, and color.
Answering the musical question: What would it be like to light over 200 bottle rockets at the same time?
Now this is a train layout, 1,800 sqaure feet of it. It’s the pride and joy of the Walnut Creek Model Railroad Society, Walnut Creek, CA, who’ve been at it since 1975. I like how the piece on Wired.com opens: Before SimCity — even before Dungeons and Dragons — back when “computer” was a job […]
