The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Don’t know what to get for your offspring? Bored with the predictable offerings of the chain retailers? Here are 10 unexpected toys that you should consider for your kids this holiday season. Ball of Whacks A creative building toy by Roger von Oech. It’s a thirty sided rhombic triacontahedron divided into 30 pyramid pieces, which […]
HE Zhao wrote in to tell us about an open source Wii peripheral drum-kit project he’s been working on: I have recently developed Wii Drum High, a software integrates Wiimote, Nunchuk and Wii Balance Board to stimulate a complete drum set. Different gestures and joystick buttons result in correspondent drum sounds. I recorded some videos […]
EMS Labs has released PDF-documentation and some new programming libraries for their Meggy Jr RGB handheld game development platform. The Programmable Guide is really well-done, clear and concise. Even I can almost figure it out. The code libraries (The Meggy Jr Library) provide a software interface to the Meggy Jr hardware and macros and functions […]
The Evolution Control Committee has developed a new interface for music software using 2 Wii remotes and a projector. Input is controlled via infrared LED thimble-gloves against a rear-projection screen. Certainly a speedier way to trigger the massive amount of Ableton Live loops seen in the above video. – Based off of Johnny Chung Lee’s […]
Mathea’s sterling silver LEGO rings make for some cool modular jewelry possibilities – neat idea! – LIFESTYLE_Schmuck_Noppenringe More: LEGO man jewelry
Berkeley shop adapts bikes for any disability… The problem: Cycles are factory-made for people with a wide variety of physical disabilities, but there is no solo bike made for a person with no use of her arms. The problem with that problem: Greg Milano, BORP director of cycling and the man who dreamed up the […]
A new update to the DS Music Interface Software project includes support for high-res data messages in the OSC format – OSC is an emerging standard for exchanging music control signals that is much more flexible and modern than MIDI. For example, OSC can directly communicate via network, so the PC-side DSMI server is not […]
