The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Gijs Gieskes is a Dutch hacker and circuit-bender who’s built this automated kaleidoscope machine with interchangeable optics barrels. He uses it to create visuals for his GameBoy music concerts. Camera Sequencer 1 – [via] Link
The folks at Wild Planet saw Jake Hildebrandt’s head-mounted display hack and our item here and posted the following contest offer to our Comments: Thanks to Jake, for the great hack! So sorry the website is out of stock. Our engineering group has a bin of extra headsets (pre-production samples, engineering test units, etc.) we’d […]
Jake Hildebrandt, best known for his steampunk mods (and his pugilistic arch-rivalry with fellow gentleman fabricator Jake von Slatt) has put up a piece on turning a Wild Planet toy video display into a head-mounted display for any typical video source (VCR. DVD, iPod, etc). $25 Head-Mounted Display – Link
Here’s a really nice open source hardware/software game system that uses PIC chips to create a genuine 80s style shooter. All of the instructions on how to build this project are on the link below. It might be smart to figure out how to make some of the wires go away though. Alien Slaughter! – […]
The i-Sobot, Tomy’s mini-humanoid, has barely been stacked on stores shelves and already toybot enthusiasts have been busy making silly videos with them (as has been widely done with Robosapien and other consumer robot “toys”). The above all-in-good-fun goofiness is brought to you by Robert Oschler, chief meatbot at Robots Rule. Looking at this elaborate […]
The “Double Down” card dealer is a fully programmable automated card dealer that just like a real-life human dealer, will make sure nobody is cheating at your table. It has the ability to deal a card in two directions (left or right, dealer or player, etc) while at the same time moving linearly perpendicular to […]
Treehugger has put together a fun roundup of bikes with reel mowers bolted onto the fronts of them. Not sure how effective this is as a mower, or rideable as a bike — this might be more Chindogu than workable hack. Has anyone made and/or ridden one of these? The Cutting Edge: Bicycle Lawnmowing – […]
