The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
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
The Mikrokopter is a kit you can buy that creates a light (only 500 gm), flying robot with four propellers and a tripod camera mount on top to capture aerial photos in flight. Really cool project for advanced and beginner makers. Link, Video, More Videos
Jordan writes – It was sometime last year that I first came up with the idea of combining two of my favourite things – choclate and Lego – but didn’t really know where to start. I knew I’d need some kind of mold, but never got around to working out the best way to make […]
Boris writes – A couple of days ago I decided that the light of my push-bike was not bright enough. After looking at the prices for better lights (i.e. at least 20 Watts halogen) in a catalog, I was convinced that building my own would be the way to go. Butt-ugly DIY bikelight – Link.
Wow Olimar supersized the DS! – Here’s a little project I’ve been working on. It’s a Nintendo DS hooked up to 2 Tablet PC screens, using an FPGA in between to do some translation magic. Pen input from the Tablet PC screens is sent back to the DS. It can also dump screenshots to a […]
