Drill bike
This is an awesome drill powered kid’s bike! Thanks John! Link.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Wiimote as “firefighting” robot
A “firefighting” robot which uses the Wiimote as the controller talking to a desktop Linux machine over Bluetooth. Wiimote controlled firefighting robot – Link Related: Wiimote as car accelerometer – Link Wii Loop Machine – Wiimote Beats – Link Wiimote controlled robot arm – Link
The Matrix goggles
Russian artists made these goggles that filter the image so it looks like you’re in the Matrix, neat (watch the video for more)… – Link.
Solar bike and blog tour of Germany
Steve Paine, a.k.a. Chippy, is a Brit living in Germany. He’s currently on a bike trip, along the Rhein River, which he’s blogging about using a UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC) and portable solar tech. Those geeks in the house who are as ancient as I am will remember Steve Roberts, the “high-tech nomad,” who took net-connected, […]
Stupid (yet cool) pen tricks
Timothy Ferriss, author of the 4-Hour Workweek, shows you how to do some nifty pen tricks in this video tutorial. Is this what you end up doing with all that voluminous free time? Tim Ferriss Pen Tricks – Link Related: How to do (and make) magic tricks – Link HOW TO – Shave a deck […]
MAH PONK: An open table tennis videogame
Viacheslav writes – I wanted to do something that has a VGA compatible output. I also had an FPGA board lying around and a bad itch to do something useless. With the help of fpga4fun.com, various online Verilog HDL references and VGA timing information I made something that outputs a steady checkerboard picture to a […]
Mind-boggling Transformers papercraft
You may have seen this item on Boing Boing Gadgets, or elsewhere, but if you’re an admirer or practitioner of papercraft, you’ve got to check the link out (as I just did). This Chinese papercrafter created an incredibly detailed, articulated Bumblebee Transformer model using mainly fast-food containers (this badass cardboard dude is basically a bunch […]