The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
(Image, story via Fast Company) The right thing to do when there are no bike lanes on a road you ride is lobby your local government to create them. The quicker (and cooler) thing to do is project your own. Hence the Light Lane: a biker-centric bicycle lane. No step-by-step instructions yet (or, for that […]
(Image via Wikipedia) Here’s a BBC radio documentary about Vélib’ (loosely velo + liberte = free bike?), a bike-share program in Paris. It costs nothing for up to half an hour, 1 euro per hour after that, and has 20,000 bicycles in operation! I like that you earn free credits if you leave bikes at […]
Here’s an interesting take on bringing 3D video game characters into the real world. This “low-polygon” man was made from molded plastic and resembles something like a cross between Grand Theft Auto meets an August Rodin figure. via Monster Munch
For today’s EMS Labs project, Windell shows you how to connect two Meggy, JR RGB game units to one another, using a hacked CD-ROM-to-Mobo cable. The cable can also be used to provide a serial connection between any two Arduino-compatible devices normally programmed through a FTDI USB-TTL cable. A tale of two Meggies
MAKE reader Mike points us to this Inhabitots article about Avik Maitra, a Colombia University graduate doing a research fellowship in Malawi. Malawi kids have been making some very cool toys out of found items; Avik is working on designing more toys that the children can make out of local materials and factory byproducts – […]
Here’s a fun combination of Wiimote, Flash, and a bit of physical computing, all cobbled together to make a little car that you can drive around the office Mario Kart style. There isn’t a whole lot of information available on this besides the video captions, but it appears to be using the WiiFlash Flash API […]
MAKE reader Mike points us to this Inhabitots article about Avik Maitra, a Columbia University graduate doing a research fellowship in Malawi. Malawi kids have been making some very cool toys out of found items; Avik is working on designing more toys that the children can make out of local materials and factory byproducts – […]
