The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
When I was a tween, I lived for slot-cars. Our small town outside of Richmond, VA had two slot car shops/tracks for a few years. This video from Spain shows a race from fixed and car-mounted cameras. Really nice track too. And vroom-vroom sound effects. Scalextric EXIN made in Spain [via]
These custom built dance pads cost under $2 USD a tile and can be hooked up to almost any console systen you can think of. This maker connected them up to his computer and the booty shaking title “StepMania”. Check out the detailed instructions at the link below. A Pair of Homemade Dance Pads
Everyone likes toys that fly. Unfortunately, most R/C planes are hard to control for people without any experience. Why not make an easy to fly blimp? It’s really quick to make, and many people have at least one of the R/C helicopters used in the build. Even if you had to buy (2) helicopters your […]
Never been able to realize your artistic vision on the old grey screen? Neil’s project may be of help – Anyone who has tried to use an Etch A Sketch knows that a good deal of co-ordination is needed in order to draw anything but horizontal and vertical lines. It quickly becomes obvious that a […]
The Passively Multiplayer Online Game, which has been in a closed beta since February, is launching an interactive tutorial for new users to coincide with the game’s appearance at Maker Faire. Members of the team, including game designer Merci Victoria Grace, will be hosting a PMOG salon where they plan to play board games and […]
A Guitar Hero-playing robot, with the awesome moniker “Slashbot,” created by four Texas A&M University undergrads. Slashbot: The Guitar Hero Robot [via]
Dug writes – The Sands Mechanical Museum has a section of their site called “Mechanisms Explained” in which they have documented, photographed, animated, and described how a variety of arcade machine mechanisms work. A great references source. Neat little animations reveal the seldom seen inner-works, interesting stuff – Sands Mechanical Museum [via Dug’s blog]
