The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Tengu is a simple USB peripheral that illuminates and lip-syncs to your favorite tunes or any other sound in the local vicinity. If there’s no sound, he’ll fall asleep and wake up again when things get noisy. Pretty nice companion for those lonely nights in front of your laptop. I guess the next step would […]
Chuck writes – This article describes how to assemble an inexpensive, but very accurate, wheel building stand for bicycles. The stand uses a dial gauge indicator that is accurate to 1/1000th of an inch, but the complete stand can be finished for about $100. The low price is achieved by using inexpensive options for the […]
David writes – I thought you guys might be interested in putting up some balloons or kites and adding some open-source aerial data. You may also want to have a look at openstreetmap.org (which can overlay the aerial images) which is going to have full (10-year old) open-source/public-domain mapping coverage of the US sometime next […]
Moose2000 made a MAME oscilloscope! MAME + sound card + oscilloscope = star wars arcade game – [via] Link.
On today’s episode of BBtv, Xeni interviews Carl Rankin, a model plane builder who creates impressive R/C planes out of take-out food cartons, drinking straws, sewing thread, Reynold’s wrap, and tape (among other things). There’s also a fun video that uses Wonder Bread like clay to create “dough-mation.” BBtv: Flying Puppets / Wonder Bread – […]
Lovely Wii storage cabinet spotted on Wii Fanboy. DIY: Big Wiimote cabinet – Link
Matt lit up his cool bike helmet with LEDs and conductive paint. Check out his neat graf tag, too! – Link. Related: LED bike helmet – Link. HOWTO – Make a LED bike light system – Link. Solar-powered bike helmet – Link.
