The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Our city prohibits street fireworks within the city limits (though you couldn’t tell from the noise on 4th of July night!). We’re going to contribute our own safe, legal noises this year with some Really Obnoxious Noise Makers from this Instructable.
Interesting, here’s a book called LEGO for adults, it shows how to make crossbows, pistols and more — there are only about 1,000 copies because (according to the author) “After 1050 copies were printed, the LEGO Group® forbid the further use of their trademark in connections with guns, so this is the first and only […]
Saturday I went to Artopia in Seattle’s Georgetown area. Lots of cool art everywhere! Divide from Hazard Factory explained his (very loud) jelly bean gun, yet another way to dramatically fling things into the air. Only use this outside! More: Make a Spud Gun Instructions and 3D PDF The SGTC Mega-Launcher Spudgun
The NXT STEP’s BlueToothKiwi made an NXT Wall-E; he’s shared instructions on NXTLOG. He also points us to the adorable Wall-E Joe Meno made out of LEGO – there are lots of pictures in his Flickr set. Bigger eyes! More: Disney intros new bots @ Maker Faire HOW TO – Build your own Wall-E robot
This is a nice Arduino project that uses a Powerball and a sensor to control a spaceship. The game is running in Flash, and it uses an Arduino to receive data from the sensor in the Powerball. I wish there was a little more details on the actual electronics of the build. There are two […]
Ronnie Hinton of Florida made a tunable six-string cigar box guitar, base on the project in MAKE vol. 4. As the video on his site shows, he can play a decent tune or two on it! From the pages of MAKE: Cigar Box Guitar by Ed Vogel in MAKE volume 4 – preview online (digital […]
Instructables user peterthehun made this costume hat replica of a Rubik’s Cube. Oddly disturbing, and I wonder how he can see out of it!
