The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
The latest issue of Robot magazine is out. As always, they’ve posted an extended article from the mag online. This one’s a run-down of all of the programming languages and development environments available for use with LEGO Mindstorms NXT. Programming Solutions for the LEGO Mindstorms NXT – Link
Here’s a nice way to relive the old school gaming relics. This watch by Nixon allows you to play Tetris and Pong side by on your wrist while simultaneously trying to figure out what the current time is. Is that the score? Is it the time? Who knows. Just be sure you aren’t trying to […]
Johnny Lee at Carnegie Mellon University figured out how to use the Wiimote’s infrared camera to track his fingers, Minority Report style. Link. (Thanks, Matt!)
In response to the virtual pilot video item we posted several weeks back, a reader sent a link to this site, a portal related to “video piloting in the newly growing and exciting hobby of First Person View (FPV or RPV) that has become popular with Radio Controlled airplanes, R/C helicopters, cars and boats.” Who […]
From the Japanese anime series S.A.C. (Stand Alone Complex), a Tachikoma Mark 2 robot comes to life. It looks like a four-legged toilet and cackles away like an over-caffeinated schoolkid. According to Boing Boing Gadgets, Audiocubes is going to be importing it to the US first-quarter ’08 and it’ll sell for $199. SAC (Stand Alone […]
Eric writes – I recently began playing competitive Scrabble again. Years ago I played at Scrabble tournaments and got quite good at it (peaking at 47th among the thoasands of rated players in the United States). I stopped playing in late 2004, but during the run I was at the height of my LEGO building […]
Longtime model airplane maker Carl Rankin is ingenious at finding new uses for common household items.
