The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
In our house, we haven’t had cable tv for about 6 years. When we moved in, there was an antenna on the roof and coax cable to a bunch of locations where tvs could go. In the basement is a signal amplifier that seems to help all the equipment find the signal. It took some […]
Hack a stock NERF chaingun it into a high-rate-of-fire beast. This viral video for an energy drink is a terrific how-to video to introduce your non-Maker friends and relatives to toy modification. They admit that this is dangerous and will probably damage the motor — they are pushing four times the voltage than it was […]
The folks at Tellart have made an amazing Augmented Reality (AR) holiday card that you can play around with yourself: you’ll need Flash player (version 9), a webcam, and a printer (so you can print out the AR objects). The project was made using FLARToolkit and Papervision 3D. Check out Tellart’s site for more details, […]
From the MAKE: Flickr pool Brian shares his design for a simple sound-based memory game using a Picaxe microcontroller – What it does MemSounds is a sound based memory game played in rounds. In the first round it plays one of 4 different sounds at random. Each sound represents a different switch in the device. […]
Star Wars maven Bonnie Burton interviewed Larry Lars, the creator of this wonderful Star Wars LEGO nativity .
This is a really cool game demo by Lok Neville Lee that uses an Arduino, accelerometer, and Papervision3D to interact with the character on the computer. The graphics look great, and the controls are awesome. I really hope more games are in the works! More about Interactive gaming with an Arduino
Andrew sent us a link to his LEGO ball contraption. It consists of conveyor belts, lifts, and sawtooth mechanisms. He plans on bringing this to one of the Great Ball Contraption events. Having recently gotten back into Lego, and wanting to build something cool that I could also bring to Lego events, I decided to […]
