Fun & Games

The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.

Sculpture responds to virtual violence

Sculpture responds to virtual violence

Adam sent word of this interesting piece – A physical manifestation add-on for a first-person-shooter game, Riley C Harmon’s “What it is without the hand that wields it” – Custom electronics based on an Atmega8/168 micro-controller are connected to a PC running a dedicated Counter-strike Source server. Players across the internet can connect and play […]

The Guitar Zeros @ Maker Faire

The Guitar Zeros @ Maker Faire

Starting a band and writing an album’s worth of songs with your own MIDI control scheme is cool. Using video game controllers as your interface is very cool. Doing all that with a fresh style that people can actually get into – that’s pretty much unheard of! The San Francisco Guardian describes them – Like […]

Bronze Boba Fett Pez dispenser

Bronze Boba Fett Pez dispenser

From Flickr: I made this using the lost wax casting process with an organic burnout. The material is silicon bronze. The original sleeve for the Pez broke, so I cannibalized parts from another dispenser: Simba from the Lion King. The hole in the body resulted from an incomplete casting of the thin part; probably could […]

The Phantom Keystroker

The Phantom Keystroker

The phantom Keystroker would be fairly easy to spot plugged into your computer, but the results would be fun to watch. Maybe a remake is in order, especially if you can make it smaller, and easier to conceal. The Phantom Keystroker may look like a harmless circuit board, but it’s actually a devious contraption of […]