The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Photo from Third World Tech Third World Tech is a neat site with loads of technologies that are used and created in the developing world. One feature on their site is this great idea of making bamboo bikes. The bicycle is such an incredibly important tool for people living on very little in low tech […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Carl gives an old-fashioned marble a shot of electric oomph with this upgrade – Arduino with motor shield controlling a continuous rotation servo. The wheel turns when marbles are detected by the infrared phototransistor and LED pair next to the wheel. Full set here, includes Arduino source and demo video. […]
` Catherine sends this in about Maya Pedal, which helps create and supply bicycles and pedal-powered machines to communities in Guatemala. Bicimáquinas (translates as “bicycle machines”) are pedal-powered machines that act as an intermediate technology to assist the family economy in obtaining a higher production capacity in agriculture and in small business. Each bicimáquina is […]
I love this funky little vibrobot, made from a mobile phone vibrartor, keypad, a clothespin, and some wire. Vibroroach More: Jar-lid vibrobot Vibrobot from a speaker and pull-cord toy HOW TO – Make a Bristlebot a tiny directional …
I love this log, spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, cut with an air intake and a chimney to create an outdoors self-contained heating unit. All in one, disposable oven
Many of us can recall repeatedly trying to load up NES cartridges that, for one reason or another, decided to display shifting screens of random bits instead of their intended game. No Carrier’s open source glitchNES software makes exploring those accidental realms of digital art easy. Alter the code to your heart’s content then load […]
OMG! If I’d found this gem glowing underneath the aluminum Christmas tree when I was a kid, I’d have sprained something in my geekly excitement. I think I’d sprain something now… my wallet. This kit sold for a rather steep-at-the-time $50 and goes for 100 times that now. But I’d still be tempted. I think […]
