The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
This electronic dartboard keeps score on an old alarm clock using it’s LED front panel along with a nifty dart detection circuit. Check out the details on how to build it at the link below. Electronic Dartboard or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ECE 476 – Link
Kevquest writes – This is a Lego Mindstorms designed Coin Sorter. This sorter will sort a handful of coins dumped into it’s separator. The NXT displays how many of each type of coin sorted and the total amount of money sorted.
Is this really the world’s smallest personal helicopter? Your guess is as good as ours, still it looks like a pretty cool way to avoid the morning rush if you don’t mind burning a hole in your scalp. Watch the video! A Personal Helicopter Can Lift You Up – [via], Link
Here’s a pretty nice how to on building a MAME cabinet out of an old arcade game machine. The author has also rigged it to play MP3s and function as a browser. MAME even runs from DOS in this version as well. Projects: Arcade Machine – Link
One of my favorite makers has a review of the Eyeclops, a super magnifying camera @ the Cockeyed Science Club. This looks like a great tool for makers for all sorts of things … Link.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Oil Heat and Bolivian Cults – The origins of some great retro toys. I like the story behind the erector set – Because of the market pressures of World War I, the United States Council of National Defense was considering a ban on toy manufacturing. Amazingly, one man’s impassioned speech successfully stopped […]
Don’t think the Wii Zapper is up to snuff? If you can bear opening up a classic NES light-gun then consider this mod found over at AcidMods. –Link Related: DIY Wii gun –Link SNES/NES controller to gamecube/Wii conversion project –Link
