The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
This is interesting, crank powered toys for kids… A local design firm with international reach is hoping to turn the trend toward environmentally friendly products into child’s play. Zen Design Group is launching SEE Toys, a line of LED-based children’s toys that draw their power from rechargeable batteries that kids juice up as part of […]
Lenore at Evil Mad Scientist Labs shows off her fantastic Quiltbert, a Q*bert inspired quilt and shows you the steps to make one yourself – Link.
When Toronto-based artist Amos Latteier is not making cardboard hover, he’s working on other cool projects, such as this kite (above), inspired by Alexander Graham Bell’s historical models (below). He’s been tracking his progress on a kite blog and is now just days away from his test flight. Bell Kite Project Blog – Link Related: […]
I have a piece on Wired.com called “Fifty Years of Hovercraft: The Tech That Barely Takes Off,” about the history of the hovercraft. If you’re inspired to build a hovercraft yourself, you can cobble one together in about thirty minutes. In the mid-20th century, nearly every comic book and issue of Boy’s Life had a […]
Great (funny) gallery of early electronic handheld games, which ones did you have? Or for the youngins’ here, which ones are you going to circuit bend? – [via] Link.
Hardware hacker extraordinaire Ben Heckendorn (a.k.a. Ben Heck) is using the guts of an Xbox 360 Elite for his next project, a 360 laptop. In preparation for this, he cracked one open, did some creative deconstruction, and has documented the results in two articles. Inside the Xbox 360 Elite – Link More about the Xbox […]
This video shows you how to shave a deck of cards so that you can perform many common card tricks. Make a “Magic” Deck of Playing Cards – Link
