The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
These homemade wireframe trucks from Cameroon, Africa use a large steering wheel to maneuver a small car on the road. Really simple construction here, built from found materials and junk, but pretty inspiring nonetheless. via Street Use
Hah! This is awesome, Slashdot has a quick blurb on the the first Commodore 64 LAN party! The world’s first Commodore 64 LAN party was held at the Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club 2008 Expo last weekend, where the new multiplayer C64 game NetRacer was unveiled. The setup consists of up to eight Commodore 64s with […]
Gunk on Floor (where do people get these names??) put together a great Instructable on making a spy periscope – it’s a classic kid’s project.
This video shows a Wii Fit Balance Board controlling a “SkyBot” toy robot to move around a platform. Check out the link below to the downloadable Python source code for this hack and lots of good details on how it was built. Wii Board
Jason writes– A paper cup, a sewing needle, and a simple LEGO Mindstorms robot make for a nice little record player. This might be a fun project to work on with the kids this 4th of July weekend. You know they’ve been wondering about the boxes of vinyl frisbees in the basement. Aside from anything […]
Patrick Wilson made a template from his father’s WWI aviation goggles and made from it generated his own pair. He shares the template and plans below. Scale drawings of my father’s aviation goggles (WW1)
Via DIY Drones comes this video of the Stanford STARMAC (Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent) quadcopters: STARMAC, the Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent is a testbed of 6 quadrotor helicopter unmanned aerial vehicles that fly indoors and outdoors to experiment with autonomous agent algorithms. This video presents an overview of the […]
