Lego Batman cake
Spotted on Flickr, a cake (yes, that’s all cake) made for the Lego Batman videogame launch party. The cake was created by cake designer Elisa Strauss. Cake!
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Visualizing data … as pong
Representing invisible activities of data systems in a familiar and comprehensible manner can play vital role in understanding and troubleshooting digital systems – and heck, everybody loves PONG, right? Yup, even Apache web servers – Logstalgia (aka ApachePong) replays or streams a standard website access log (eg access.log) as a retro arcade game-like simulation. We […]
Maker Faire Austin: Call For Flyover
We would love someone to take to the sky for a nice aerial photo of the make-tastic-ness that is Maker Faire Austin 2008 next weekend. Can anyone help us out??
Dollhouse von Slatt keyboard
Stephanie was going through some watch parts she’d bought on eBay and some reminded her of Jake von Slatt’s iconic keyboard, so she was inspired to make a dollhouse-size replica. Awesome. The full-size inspiration: Steampunk Keyboard, The Mini Me Version [via Steampunk Workshop]
Amazing mini V12 car engine
Whoa. A miniature V12 engine for BIG R/C vehicles. The home-made motor is a valve-operated 12 cylinder 4 stroke engine with two low operated camshafts with oil lubrication and air cooling. The builder is hoping to eventually offer the engine as a kit. V12 RC-Engine [Via Hacked Gadgets]
BrickCon photos
Massive photo pool on Flickr with over 4,000 photos from last weekend’s BrickCon, over 3,200 attended in Seattle, WA to see some of the biggest and best LEGO creations on earth. Here’s a nice set via The Brother’s Brick, Zombie Apocafest!
Arduino shield triggers a gameboy with any MIDI device
This cool shield hack for the Arduino controller called the “ArduinoBoy” lets you interface it to any MIDI input to trigger sounds on a standard Gameboy. To get started, just use an existing Arduino protoshield, and scrap the breadboard for some custom circuitry and components outlined at the link below. ArduinoBoy, via Create Digital Music