The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
There’s been a lot written about how humans anthropomorphize Pleo – but even dolphins are fascinated! This is an amazing video. Sirensgrotto says that Pleo reacts positively to the dolphins, too. Related: Hack the Pleo robotic dinosaur new dev forum and scripting now available BREAKING NEWS: MySkit – Performance editor for PLEO
Play pong with bicycles – Cyclepong 2.0– Cyclepong is an update of the classic arcade game Pong to use bikes as the controllers. To read about the first version of Cyclepong go to the Cyclepong page. I always wanted Cyclepong to be something that lots of people would get to play with. My original idea […]
More crazy jet-powered action, this one a pulse-jet strapped to the side of a 1950s cruiser bike. Jet bike,75 MPH
Buzzfeed has an interesting round up of “Scraper Bikes” – bikes with matching body and wheel colors, many of the materials are from discarded packaging, trash wrapped in foil.
The Science Museum of Minnesota’s Studio 3D has some great kid’s projects. I especially like the Marble Machine, which incorporates recycling and simple electronics and kinetics. Marble machine Related: The Way Things Go (one of our favorite DVDs!)
Over at Telstar Logistics, MAKE contributor Todd Lappin has a write-up and some pictures of this past weekend’s 2008 Power Tool Drag Races. Power Tool Drag Racing 2008: The Photos! The Fashions! [via]
BurnSim ($39) is a solid rocket motor ballistic simulation program (Windows only) now in its third version. In a nutshell, input your motor, nozzle and propellant characteristics and BurnSim calculates the Kn (kilonewton) through the burn and predicts estimated chamber pressure and motor performance. Once your motor design is in BurnSim, you can tweak the […]
