The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
For this weekend’s Steam Powered: The California Steampunk Convention, the band Abney Park and Airship Ventures have teamed up to offer dirigible rides to conference-goers (for $785 a ticket). Airship Ventures just brought one of their Zeppelin NTs over from Germany and it will be moored at Moffett Field. MAKE contributor Todd Lappin was lucky […]
Here’s an hour-long explanation of Emotiv’s mind-computer interface: Here’s a clip of the Prototype This team turning this into a car rage-monitoring system, and here’s a Wired magazine (mini-)review from last issue. We’ve covered this before, but sounds like Emotiv is now finally close to a release. Their developer section is here. Has anybody gotten […]
Guy proposes to girlfriend by hacking a video game ROM – via Crunchgear. TheRealPfhreak writes – On October 17th, 2008, I proposed to my (now) Fiance. Originally I wanted to retun to the site of our first date, Mount Baker, near Bellingham Washington. Sadly, there was no discrete way to get her out there. So […]
This is a really cool looking quad-rotor flying vehicle. It uses a Parallax Propeller chip to handle all the complex tasks of flying and remote control. I really like the sound it makes when it lands at the end of the video. More about the Spyder prototype [Parallax forums]
Wow, Aneel used 6 “SpokePOVs” to turn his bicycle wheels in to Obama logos (photo set here)… He included the files for download if you want to do this on your own, or you can of course make whatever you want. Oh, just to be clear and to avoid a comment-fight, MAKE does not endorse […]
Casper’s brother made him this totally sweet bronze sculpture using Styrofoam and a LEGO minifig. Via Brothers Brick
Fine Clonier is hosting a Haunted Halloween Custom LEGO Minifig Contest – there’s still time to enter! Here are a few of the rules – complete information is here. (I hope somebody comes up with a scary princess) What is the contest,” you ask. Well it is simply building a Custom Scary Halloween figure out […]
