Eyeclops: Super magnifying camera
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.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Secret origins of retro toys
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 […]
Wii-NES zapper mod
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
Dark Knight trailer in LEGOs
Wonderful video reenactment of the Batman Dark Knight trailer in LEGOs. The Dark Knight Trailer IN LEGO!!! – Link
The Bamboo Bike Project
The Bamboo Bike Project is a collaboration between scientists and engineers at The Earth Institute at Columbia University and a bicycle builder at Calfee Design. The project aims to examine the feasibility of implementing cargo bikes made of bamboo as a sustainable form of transportation in Africa. The ultimate goals of the project are: 1.To […]
Real world Mario
Keith Lam (a.k.a. The Demos) created a real life Mario game installation called “Moving Mario”. The video shows the artwork and describes a lot about the creation process. It would have been a lot easier to use parallax scrolling of the background, but the point is you actually MOVE Mario, not the background…and a moving […]
Riding the (mono)rails
French artist Vincent Lamouroux built this cool pedal cycle to travel along abandoned French Aerotrain monorail tracks. I love it when the future is already in ruin. Vincent Lamouroux – [via] Link