The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Best known for inventing TV-B-Gone, a keychain that turns off TVs in public places, Mitch Altman is interested in any technology that gives people more choices for improving their lives. You donโt have to be a Buddhist monk to meditate, or a Sleeping Beauty to sleep well. Achieve these altered states of consciousness, and others, […]
A few months ago I fell into a Nintendo DS for cheap. Somebody wanted a new phone…So once I got my hands on it, I just had to stickerfy it. Here are some shots of the process of putting custom vinyl skins on my ds. This could be a decent little moneymaker. I got it […]
Today, Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories announced a new kit, the Meggy Jr RGB. Meggy is a development platform for handheld pixel games built around a 8×8 RGB LED matrix display and driven by an ATmega168 MCU. You can write your own games for it and use it through the Arduino dev environment. Nifty! A unique […]
Photograph by Albert W. Starkweather It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … boat? Technically, it’s a planeboat. And to Dave Drimmer of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the live-aboard craft was home for 20 years. The vessel has a colorful history. Its name, Cosmic Muffin, comes from singer Jimmy Buffett, who caught a glimpse of […]
Interesting-looking free program that uses your webcam to track any object as a rotational and translational game controller. I haven’t tried it yet, but I can’t wait to play Tetris with my shoe. CamSpace is a program that allows the user to control his favorite games and applications with any webcam. Use your body and […]
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Scott Beale of Laughing Squid writes: “Can Throwing”, it’s kind of like Parkour for recycling.
