The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
This GameBoy Foot Controller mod by Joey Mariano connects up the original control buttons of a GameBoy Color to 8 individual foot pedals. Add the Gameboy sequencer hacks of “Nano-loop” or “Little Sound DJ” and you can create a bonafide disco from the comforts of any street corner. Since it’s foot triggered, you could even […]
The PaperPod Rocket comes flat and blank, ready to be decorated by your children. Ships from the UK and is too small for adults, so I think it’s a perfect candidate for a re-make. I think I can reverse-engineer this thing from the photo… Nigel’s Eco Store sells other eco-friendly holiday gifts as well. – […]
Instructables user fungus amungus made this awesome Guitar Hero controller mod with light-up buttons. – Link.
