Homebrew — My Lego UAV
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 you’ve entered.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Aha! Puzzle This
MAKE’s favorite puzzles.
Toys, Tricks, and Teasers — Putting a spin on a puzzle
This beautiful puzzle was shown to me by Mary Nienhuis, a retired high school mathematics teacher.
HOW TO – Snail racing!
Here’s how to host a snail race in your home, complete with printable racing tags to affix to the snails – Link. If that’s not your thing, you can also freeze a snail…Life and death at low temperatures, in MAKE 07 (Backyard Biology) we show how to freeze and revive a garden snail – here’s […]
History of matching tile games
A history of matching tile games by Jesper Juul – This article aims to write the history of a video game genre. The genre is that of matching tile games, video games where the object of the player is to manipulate tiles on a grid in order to create matches. For a few years, the […]
IKEA gaming table
Eric Gradman, who brought us the awesome Trash 80 bluetooth “prank,” has posted a Flickr set for his cool MAME gaming system house inside of an IKEA dining table. IKEA MAME Dinner Table – [via] Link Related: Bluetoothing a Trash 80 – Link IKEA coffee table with recessed planter and LED light – Link
Urban game uses RFID and Wi-Fi detection to create sound and light up trees
The “NORDLICHT BLITZ PLAY” (Blitz Play Hero III) is an urban game that reads its boundaries from embedded RF transmitters scattered around the city and receivers in mobile devices carried by players. When the devices receive data from the city nodes, they create sounds that are played back on modified Nintendo DS game systems while […]