Aha! Puzzle This
MAKE’s favorite puzzles.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
My Own Laser Tag System
What started as a hobby has turned into much more — I’ve spent more time with my kids, become more active, and even launched a small side business.
“Retro-minimalist homebrew game console”
Ladyada writes on ladyada’s ranting: The UzeBox the coolest thing I’ve seen in a really really long time, a full tile-based gaming system built on a Atmega644 + AD725 (which does all the nasty colorburst stuff). Ive spent some time with the AD725 but at the time I was using an Atmega16 and didn’t get […]
Play snake on a Monome
“Tilty Snake” employs the Monome 64’s accelerometer to create a novel interface for the old school video game of snake. The result is a really nice and intutive controller for the classic game as can be seen from the above video.
DIY Skateboard
Letsevo has a nice write up on how-to make your own old school style skateboard. The website has a flickr photo set of the build and a PDF template to get you started in the right direction. I just finished out my latest project. A contribution for the DIY (Do it yorself) community. Since I […]
LEGO sport city
The Beijing Olympics inspired the Hong Kong LEGO Users Group to build the incredibly detailed LEGO Sport City – here’s the flickr set. They used 300,000 bricks and 4,500 mini-figures! Via Metafilter
Walk around Google’s street view with a Wii Fit
Yet another hack of the Wii Fit’s cheap sensing board. This Maker has connected it up to the panoramas from Google’s street view so you can literally “walk” down the street of almost any mapped city in the world from the comfort of your own living room. Just be careful of the “virtual” oncoming traffic. […]
