The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Although this mod won’t be seen by many people because it’s under the hood of a car, we still applaud this maker who managed to create a giant NES controller that sits on top of his car’s motor. Playing a game with this controller might be difficult if you are driving, although you’ll be the […]
This homemade joystick built from wood and arcade style buttons controls a Neo Geo game system so that the maker wouldn’t have to pay for the expensive AES joysticks. This is a great tutorial with tons of info and 2-part pictures of the build at the link below. Universal Joysticks
Everything’s better with LED’s, right? Consider illuminating a time-honored game of strategy – I had just picked up a cheap-o glass chess set at my local arcade for the low low price of only 15,000 tickets. The novelty of playing with glass pieces quickly wore off, and I wondered how I could make it better. […]
On Johnny Lee’s website, he discusses (and shows video off) his latest computer-human interaction research at Carnegie-Mellon using the Wiimote. In the above video, he gives a presentation on different types of flexible, foldable displays using the motion tracking of the Wiimote and IR LEDs (and projection) to simulate the displays. On his page is […]
Here’s a how-to on building a lugsail land surfer that has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with steampunk. Steampunk Lugsail Land Windsurfer
Remember this LED turn signal bike jacket we posted a while back? Well Leah Buechley made a tutorial for making your own. It has a button on each sleeve for activating the turn signals. The instructable includes a handy sewing/wiring diagram and lots of key insights into sewing a circuit for an LED turn signal […]
Here’s a nice tutorial on doing some logic analysis of a PS2 console controller using a Lantronix LogicPort: 34 channel logic analyzer. This way you can find out exactly how much wizardry and engineering goes into making some of the most popular console controllers of all time. And perhaps after you’re done, you can build […]
