The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
The mammoth two wheels of Unwheeldy will be rolling into Bay Area Maker Faire – In January of 2005, I began construction of a vehicle to enter into the World Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race from Arcata California to the nearby town of Ferndale. The race is held every Memorial Day, near the end of May. […]
A couple of my Make: DC and Dorkbot DC compatriots, Nick Farr, Adam Koeppel, and others, have created a hacker space in DC, in the spirit of other bricks and mortars sites like NYC Resistor and Philly’s The Hactory. HacDC is holding a pre-grand opening “Parts Party” this Sunday to start collecting techno-junk, equipment, parts, […]
Mike made an audio-only version of pong – looks like a lot of potential fun! When you put on the headphones, you hear a sound that is cycling through a sequence indicating its approach. The sound is somewhere on the left-right axis in the headphones. If the sound is to your left, you have to […]
This instructable author did some experimental trial & error development in order to produce his own additional game/memory cards for the Hydra console – You will need more serial flash chips. Although 24LC256 and 24LC1024 are mentioned by the author of the Hydra manual, I’ve used 24LC512, which has 64K of bytes on it. Almost […]
Xbox live has a bunch of classic arcade games that you can download via XBox Live. Wouldn’t it be great if you had a classic joystick controller too? Obviously some other people think so too, and here is a great example of a homemade Xbox arcade controller. Related: Make An Xbox360 Arcade Joystick
Michael wins the best Guitar hero hack of all time! He created a circuit that takes in composite video, performs signal processing, and then correctly “hits†buttons on the guitar hero controller based upon what’s on the screen – AutoGuitarHero via Bunnie. What is the story? “I knew the only way I was going to […]
WiiMan is a full action figure costume of a super hero that functions as a Nintendo WiiMote remote.
