The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
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 […]
Remote Impact – Shadowboxing over a distance via Waxy. Remote Impact is a “Sports over a Distance” game that provides a full body contact experience between geographically distant players. The game encourages extreme physical exertion and, unlike the Nintendo Wii and other console games, it recognizes and registers intense brute force. The physical intensity of […]
The folks over at Gizomodo have combined two of my favorite things, LEGOs and Halloween. This looks like a fun project to build, and it would make a perfect addition to anyone’s desk. How To Build a 3D Lego Halloween Pumpkin More: DIY Halloween contest! This is the BIG ONE!!!!
Gottfried writes in about the DS brut – Hi there, at the beginning of this year, Gordan Savicic (who did the infamous “contraint city” wifi-nds-corset project, featured on MAKE blog, WMMNA and others) and myself desperately needed an I/O card for the Nintendo DS for a project of ours. So we set out to build […]
