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Graduation season is nearly upon us, and I’m sure quite a few of you are furiously pinning last-minute project ideas. So, if you’re looking for a cute way to present tasty treats at your grad’s celebration, you’ll definitely want to check out these super-charming DIY smart cookie graduation party favors! Have a grad in your […]
You’d be forgiven for doing a double-take, a triple-take, or even insisting that this is a clever ‘shop job, but you’d be mistaken. This is a 1/12-scale version of a power suit model from the Starship Troopers anime series, done by Japanese modeler mumumuno53. To achieve this amazing effect, he relied on using a paper-colored […]
Simon Clark hand builds retro arcade cabinets so that you experience those much loved games from the eighties the way they should be experienced.
Today, Makey Makey gets a smaller sibling called Makey Makey Go, the latest version of our favorite interface board designed to allow people to quickly take everyday objects and use them to control their computers. The thumb drive shaped device is the second product from Jay Silver and Joylabz, who introduced the first Makey Makey exactly three years […]
Young maker “CrazyPT” has a bunch of really cool toy building projects on his YouTube channel. Here, he creates a really fun little air-powered car out of little more than a plastic bottle, some bottle caps, plastic straws, wooden skewers, and a motor scavenged from a dead CD drive.
We’ve seen a lot of insanely great adult Lego projects over the years, but this one takes the cake. This full-size hot rod is the brainchild of Steve Sammartino, a young marketing guy from Melbourne, Australia and Raul Oaida, a 20-year old self-taught engineer from Romania that Sammartino met over the Internet. Money for their […]
Jan Klomp, as a child of the 80s, and according to him, “still a 44 year old child,” grew up with such wonderful things as the Commodore 64, arcade cabinets, and pinball machines. After building a MAME (emulated arcade) cabinet, he was introduced to the pinball versions, pinMAME and Visual Pinball, which allow one to […]
