The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
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
From MiniatureBrainwave: Husband and wife team – Angel Tan and Justin Volpe created this steampunk piece for the custom Bart Simpson art exhibit held at theshowroomnyc this weekend. Known as the B.A.R.T. (Biomechanical Artificial Roving Terrain), this work is a shoutout to the steampunk esthetic. Steampunk Bart Simpson – Link Related: Steampunk coverage on MAKE: […]
Mmmm, virtual pizza (cutting) – To demonstrate how much easier it is to use two handed multi-touch interaction instead of traditional interaction, Matthijs created a two handed multi-touch virtual pizza cutting knife for his graduation assignment at Working Tomorrow. Skip the first 75 seconds if you want to go straight to the demo. Multi-touch virtual […]
A solar-powered game “system” using a PIC 12f683 chip and a Nokia 3310 LCD. (No info given on the cell itself.) Solar POWER! For my PIC and Nokia stuff – [via] Link 3310 Nokia LCD & PIC 12f683 – Link
