The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
I love this scratch-built old-school Indie race car for kids. It was built on an aircraft-style stringer frame with a riveted sheet aluminum skin. There are fun details on it, like a sliced-in-half 50s kitchen canister for the front bumpers, a malt shaker for the headrest, and a maraschino cherry jar for the radiator cap […]
MAKE will be at the NYC Toy Fair 2009 – last year we had some MASSIVE coverage from the event and hope to bring you a DIY/Science view of the show again, while we skip a lot of the “toys” we do head right for the science and learning companies – last year one of […]
In poking around the InterTubes yesterday, looking for items related to my latest Lost Knowledge column, I happened upon Jake von Hildebrandt’s SteamTV project, which uses the Nipkow disk TV technology I included in the column. And a Jensen desktop steam engine for power! Really cool. Unfortunately, it appears that this project hasn’t been worked […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Unsatisfied with the limited catalogue of wordage offered by the household favorite Electronic Catch Phrase, Adam decided to make his own. Enter the expandable “Klugephrase” handheld game device – You turn it on, and it shows a list of categories. you pick a category, and it shows you a word […]
Providence Daily Dose has the scoop on the upcoming Roller Races to benefit Recycle-a-Bike, Providence’s volunteer-run bicycle maintenance and education collective: What are roller races? Two riders at a time, sprint out 500m trials, on single speed track bikes strapped to a set of rollers. Rollers are wired up to an electronic clock that simulates […]
Several years ago, I got into playing the gothic sci-fi tabletop wargame Warhammer 40,000. I nearly bankrupted my family (and I’m only half-kidding), with all of the models, supplies, games books, terrain pieces I bought. I got to the point, like any addict, where I was “under reporting” my habit and hiding some of my […]
Virtual Apple 2 – Online disk archive — Oregon Trail… a timeless classic..
