The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Park tool has a pretty some good how-tos on fixing your bike: Getting the length of your chain or brake line right, installing a new set of tires, etc… Link. More: Bicycle projects & more @ MAKE – Link. MAKE 11: Our special “DIY Wheels” section brings you plans for making a mobile drive-in movie […]
MAKE contributor Steve Lodefink came up with a quick way of bodging together some dueling lightsabers from flashlights, plastic tubes, lenses from 3D glasses, reflective material, and tape. Hours of fun. Or minutes, anyway. 2 Minute Dueling Lightsabers – Link
2nd year engineering students from UBC (University of British Columbia) building robots to “play” a jumbo version of the electronic board game Operation. 2007 UBC Engineering Physics 253 – Doctor-Bot – Link Related: OPERATION: The costume – Link Make your own Operation board game – Link Making an ‘Operation’ game costume – Link
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories offers this tutorial on how to re-cover a bicycle seat. I don’t know about you, but I can feel that star being pressure-branded onto my butt just thinking about going for a cruise on this thing. Bicycle Seat Cover Project – Link
Michael writes – I thought I’d send you a link to a project I’ve been working on for the past two weeks. I’m a software guy, not a hardware guy but it might still be interesting to some of your readers that are just learning micro-controller programming. diyhandheld – DIY Handheld Electronic Game – Link.
Billing it as the world’s smallest humanoid robot, toymaker Tomy has released a video of the i-Sobot, showing off what it can do. Pretty impressive for something that will retail for US$299. Amazon already has it available for preorder. It will allegedly ship next month. i-SOBOT Rocks, Rolls, And Somersaults – Link i-SOBOT [Robots Rule!] […]
It’s Chris Anderson Day on MAKE: Blog. Here, he shows off a gyro-stabilized camera mount he built for his RC plane. You can see more of his (and others) efforts at building amateur UAVs at DIYDrones.com. Gyro-stabilized camera mount – [via] Link
