The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Here’s an elegant table made from bike parts by MAKE Flickr pool member Delcruiser. It features a chain ring shelf handy for stowing magazines/books or maybe a kryptonite chain or two. Bike part coffee table on Flickr – Link Also – Check out these graceful seatings by Frida Ottemo Kallstrom – constructed from recycled bicycle […]
Personally, I find the Indy Mogul/Backyard FX videos a lot of smoke with little heat or fire, but YMMV. Here they make some retro rayguns from junkshop parts. Retro Ray Guns – [via] Link
Some may call it cheating but many more will call it “Sweeeeeeet”! Take your game to the next level by modding a Guitar Hero controller with a 555 timer circuit – making inhumanly fast whammy attacks finally a reality. Ryan posted a great how-to (in between solos): HOWTO Hack Your Guitar Hero Whammy Bar – […]
Boing Boing Gadget’s Joel Johnson celebrates 50 years of LEGO by tackling the Ultimate Collectors Millennium Falcon LEGO set, the biggest building set LEGO has ever produced. The results are a furry of time-lapsed bricking to some great bleep music. While on BBtv, also check out the coverage of the recent Crucible fire-themed fashion show. […]
Matt Mechtley made an articulated camera mount for his bike using an old tripod head. He shows us how in this instructable. – Link & more.
This custom-built exercise bike wheel turns a generator from an old Volkswagen to charge a 12 volt car battery. I like the idea of using human power to generate gadget power, they just need to get an iPod cable hooked up to this thing. Lots of other cool projects at the below link. How to […]
This hacked Xbox 360 controller replaces one of the analog joysticks with a tilt sensor. Pretty simple hack with some nicely playable results. Xbox 360 Tilt Controller Phase Two – Link
