The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
This video for bike virgins runs through all of the parts and nomenclature of a 10-speed bike. The soundtrack to the video was done by bangin’ and clangin’ bike parts. It reminded me of that classic Frank Zappa appearance on The Steve Allen Show where Frank and Steve played bicycles. Bicycle Anatomy for Beginners [via […]
This hack shows how to stuff a Nintendo Gameboy inside the housing of a TI-83 series calculator. We’ve seen the cool things these calculators can be hacked to do, but we haven’t seen someone take it this far. Unfortunately, I think it would be more impressive if he got the TI-83’s hardware to play Gameboy […]
This tutorial shows each step necessary to build a MIDI clock to sync to Little Sound DJ or NanoLoop on a Nintendo Gameboy in order to output beats to the midi instrument of your choice. It lets you synchronize up to six copies of LSDJ or NanoLoop simultaneously to a MIDI clock. Check out this […]
John created a scrolling game by using Scratch. By using the GUI based programming environment, he was able to create his own version of Mario. The game isn’t fully complete, but it has a lot of good going for it. You can play his game by visiting the project’s page on the Scratch site. If […]
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 don’t 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 […]
