The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Julian writes – Coolest Altoids/Tin mod I’ve seen. This guy (Greg Sanders) made a portable game box that plays a rogue like game. He uses a Genesis controller to control the actual game, but I’d bet with a little work the entire unit could be entirely self-contained (by using a tipping-disk for directional control and […]
SketchyPhysics is a plugin for Sketchup – It combines a simple and easy to use interface with the power of a fast and accurate physics library, thanks Noah – Link.
Teebee918 writes – So this is my second instructable, thanx for clicking on it! It is not fully true what the title claims, you do need some materials of course (in fact a lot), I just wanted to emphasize that I had no guitar or anything at the beginning, so it’s not a “how to […]
Dave writes – Last year, I and five friends created this scale version of the popular Brio Labyrinth game for Holocene’s Annual Mini Golf Invitational, where artists are asked to create original mini-golf holes. Labyrinth: The Mini-golf Version is just like Labyrinth: the Original Laptop Game, except played with a golf ball instead of a […]
This fairly simple hack uses a Nintendo Wii remote to capture G-force readings in a car, dump it to a CSV (Comma-Separated Values) text file, and then graph it via Excel. The results aren’t the most precise, but apparently good enough to give you some useful feedback on car mods. Wii Remote Measurements [via] – […]
Remember when your momma used to tell you: “Wash your hands after touching that money. You don’t know where it’s been!” Well, now you can reply: “I do so! Let’s see: it first showed up in Dayton, Ohio, five years ago, at a Sonic drive-thru, then it headed south, then west, spending a lot of […]
Make was at the OSHKOSH Air Show on Tuesday and we’ll be back there on Wednesday. Associate Publisher Dan Woods and Contributing Editor Bill Gurstelle are with me at the event. The size of the event is impressive — with a fly-in community pitching tents next to their airplanes. We also watched the air show […]
