The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
“Stringwalker” attempts to solve the problem of walking with a head-mounted VR display through a virtual space. The project uses eight strings actuated by motor-pulley mechanisms mounted on a turntable to give the walker tangible feedback of their virtual environments while guiding them through the spaces. Just don’t try to attach your shoelaces to the […]
All the parts for my bike came from the shop Sheldon Brown worked at, this is really sad – a maker writes in – This is primarily a piece of sad news and secondarily a link to an awesome maker’s site. Sheldon Brown recently passed away due to a heart attack. Sheldon has been famous […]
These French engineering students wrote some software to control a little Pekee bot via Nintendo DS’ wi-fi. They utilize several different control methods you may recognize from DS games (such as the MarioKart steering interface). To check out the app for yourself, download the .nds file posted here. And just in case that demo was […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool: Ryan made his own retro-pixel cookie cutters and churned out a fresh batch o’ aliens. He seems to be a little wary of eating them tho, since the cutter shapes were assembled using solder. Yeah, probably a good idea to avoid all known lead content in food – but hey, […]
Embisys has an Internet connected LEGO robot. What makes this a little different is the Nokia cell phone, which passes all the data via a mobile packet data service to an Ajax based web page. It can send pictures & receive commands anywhere there is a cellular signal. TeMo is a tele-operated mobile Internet robot. […]
Here’s a creepy cool Predator bust made from LEGO by Mister Zumbi – [via] Link. Related: LEGO from the pages of MAKE – Link. LEGO archives – Link.
Helge made an interesting LEGO clock that uses ping-pong balls and Lego Technic to keep track of time. One thing that makes this clock different from the rest, is his way of transporting the balls to the top of the clock. Every minute a fan starts up and blows a new ball from the reservoir […]
