Bicycle Music Festival in SF
You’re invited to the Bicycle Music Festival this Saturday (tomorrow!) in San Francisco. It’s a mobile community music festival, all day long! More: Xtracycle QuickHitch tutorial and Maker Faire special
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Flashback: Head-Mounted Water Cannon
When the fabulous Pontani Sisters engage in their covert after-hours life of fighting crime, they use a select arsenal of weaponry. Seen above are the sisters in action with the Head-Mounted Water Cannon from MAKE Volume 07. John Young shared this lively DIY with us in 2006, along with this hilarious intro: Let’s face it: […]
BART swing photos
Check out the collection of photos from the use of this swing on at BART train in San Francisco. Fun! Via NOTCOT. More: Swing skirt
Interactive ping-pong table / virtual aquarium
Ah, the gay (19)90s: before Y2K, 9/11, Gitmo, CDOs, and all kinds of other depressing modern acronyms. Venture capital fell from the sky like manna, and everyone was getting rich on the Internet, even though nobody knew exactly how. Enter, into that milieu, the following brilliant idea, courtesy of the wunderkinder at MIT’s then-ascendant Media […]
Xtended Xtracycle deal for makers
Our friends at Xtracycle have extended their maker special. They lent us some of their Radish bikes during Maker Faire, and they were major eye-catchers. The FreeRadical is a nifty add-on to extend the end of your bike, making more room to haul stuff and passengers. Once you’ve got your bike’s backseat all set up, […]
WoooOOSH! – Arduino space cruiser! … sorta
Technology … the electronic frontier. These are the voltages of Arduino microcontroller. It’s 54 I/O pins … to explore new circuitry, to bring forth new devices and experimentation. To totally make tons of LEDs blink! — WOOooosh – PEW! PEW! – BZzZTtT! *ahem* (Arduino Mega via MakerShed, ScrewShield by Wingshield Industries)
Super Mario Theremin control
This vid’s been making the rounds, featuring an unusual method for controlling old school games – theremin. Yup, theremin. From the video’s desciption – The sound from the theremin is split into its frequency and amplitude components in real time, which are then mapped to values in a linear scale representing the X and Y […]