The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Or car? Somewhere in between is this project from SJSU: (via Ecofriend) Here’s the homepage for Dr. Hsu, and here’s a presentation he gave on solar cells (pdf). At $4,000 and 30 mph with a 60-mile range, sounds like a good alternative to smaller gas-powered scooters!
Noah points out this article over @ bunnie’s blog, showing some pretty smooth FPS gaming on the open-source squeezable – xobs, a developer at chumby, showed me one of the coolest things Iรขโฌโขve seen in a while on a chumby: a full port of Quake. He got the whole thing running under SDL and hacked […]
Yury Gitman teaches a class about incorporating electronics into toys, he calls it “Making Toys: Playful Experience Design Through Interactive and Wireless Techniques.” This semester they’re having a public open house to showcase (and play with) the toys they’ve created during the course. There’s RFID, Arduino, and included source code. If you’re in New York, […]
Using the undocumented MPTVOutWindow class, Steven Troughton-Smith was able to update his iPhone Doom port to enable TV-out and on screen controller support. Doom on the iPhone on a TV is a pretty big deal to start with, but the bigger story here is that in addition to the TV-out features, he was able to […]
Marina from Austria is a mouse agility trainer – check out this video of a mouse completing an entire course, it’s really amazing! Via CuteOverload MORE: Monty on the Run
What was new in 1955… a modded bike for taking the family around town.
The helpless cries and LCD spasms of a very bent GB under the modulating influence of LoFi Ninja‘s keyboard rhythm section. That synched screen-streakery is a thing in and of itself! – LoFi Ninja – Circuit bent Gameboy
