Wooden bike gallery
More “cocopunk” goodness, here a round-up of wooden bikes from around the world on Kevin Kelly’s Street Use. Wooden Bikes Related: Is Gilligan the next Jules Verne? Wooden bike
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Sing-Along Simon game
Here’s a different approach to the classic Simon game – Sing-Along is a musical tone memory game in the tradition of the popular ’80s game Simon (Hasbro). Designed for one to three players, the ATtiny12 microcontroller-based device plays a random sequence of notes, and then listens for the player(s) to mimic the sequence by singing […]
Another Guitar Hero bot…
…with circuit schematics and PCB layout. Near Future Laboratory
Build a modified SPAD3D plane
Here’s a detailed how-to on building a modified SPAD3D mini plane that the author has named the “SPA3DT” (the “T” stands for “tubular”). The maker is using a “TT Pro .46” engine for power and a “GP 10 ounce” fuel tank. Check out the specifics of how he did it at the link below. SPA3DT
Non-autonomous tri-wheeled rover with virtual exploration
Jim writes in with his version of MAKE 14’s Living Room Baja Buggies – I took issue #14’s cover project and made my own version using the MINDSTORMS NXT – I have one NXT tribot and another NXT I use a remote control. I bought the goggles recommended and already owned the wireless camera, so […]
LEGO NXT image scanner
Anders Søborg built an amazing scanner that can use either the light sensor that comes with the NXT or a HiTechnic color sensor. Each line of the image is created by moving the sensor over the image at a constant speed while recording the position and corresponding sensor values with a fixed sample rate. The […]
Playstation2 controller interface guide
Curiousinventor wrote a nice technical guide to working with ps2 controllers – Despite the large number of guides already out there that describe how to communicate with a play station controller (or guitar hero), most do not cover all the details, or do so sparsely. We consolidated and tested all the info we could find […]