The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
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.
Just give it GPS waypoints, take it off manually, then flick a switch on the R/C transmitter, and this fully functional UAV flies to the coordinates youโve entered.
MAKEโs favorite puzzles.
This beautiful puzzle was shown to me by Mary Nienhuis, a retired high school mathematics teacher.
