Anatomy Arcade games
Think Anatomy points us to Anatomy Arcade, an anatomy learning site with free flash games, including Poke-A-Muscle, Whack-A-Bone, and a bunch of cool jigsaw puzzles.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Ski bicycles
Thanks to Robin for pointing me to this experiment in winter bicycling with skis: Here’s a downhill-only version by another Maker in action: Here’s Ktrak, the fancy commercial version:
Bicycle bar
Thanks to Berend for pointing me to my new favorite thing in the world: a bicycle-based beer bar. Originally in the Netherlands, there’s an American version, too. The only way I can think of for this project to become cooler would be if people can ride up to it and link their bikes in on-the-fly…
Solar-human hybrid bike
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!
Chumby makes Quake huggable
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 I’ve seen in a while on a chumby: a full port of Quake. He got the whole thing running under SDL and hacked […]
Making Interactive Toys public presentations and playtesting
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, […]
iPhone Doom
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 […]