HOW TO – bike pannier from messenger bag
Instructables user trebuchet03 (San Francisco, CA) made a detailed tutorial on converting a messenger bag into a bike pannier complete with a hard backplate, rack hooks, and bungee cord.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Ball that bounces on water…
Interesting background about a ball that bounces on water, and its maker… via Land-o-links. The Waboba ball, which is about the size of a golf ball, has taken off around the world after videos were posted on YouTube. Made of a combination of plastics with a lycra coating, it is described as having the consistency […]
Trossen contest winners
Trossen Robotics has announced the winners of their latest Trossen Robotics Community building contest. This scratch-built Wall-E, by TRC member 4mem8, won first prize (a SG-5UT Robotic Arm). Trossen writes: We got to watch 4mem8 bring this guy to life and document every painstaking step that he took building this Wall-E robot from scratch. That’s […]
NES DVD player mod
This maker decided to put an old $20 DVD player into the body of an NES in order to give his movie watching some gamer street cred. We especially like the explosed buttons on the circuit board glued to the top of this hack. NES DVD Player MOD
Classic camp stove and lamp galleries
Mister Jalopy of Dinosaurs and Robots points us to these cool collections of classic camping kerosene lamps and stoves. Having spent the better part of my youth hiking and camping, I fondly remember a lot of these models. Spiritburner.com Motoshi Makino’s Classic Camping Collection Other awesome stove/lantern collections via Spiritburner.com
Handheld Arduino game console
Bricogeek’s “Ardugame” is and Arduino based handheld gameboy-look-alike that looks like a lot of fun. The machine’s equipped with an OLED display, speaker, accelerometer, and even a DB9 port for multiplayer expansion. – Ardugame [google translation]
Levelhead code released under GPL
To followup our previous post about this project, New Zealand born, Madrid-based artist, Julian Oliver has released the source code under the GPL for his excellent “Level Head” installation that uses computer vision and ARToolkit marker imprinted cubes as the user interface of a game in which a character moves through a 3D labyrinth. Also, […]
