Minibike with a turbine engine
John sent in this fun video of a turbine engine powered minibike, zooooooooom!
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Big brass ones
Whamodyne suggests everyone should have a pair… of big brass dice. With Father’s day coming up, I wanted to do something a little different. Now, dad plays a lot of board games and occasionally I’ve seen him have to squint a bit to see how the dice wound up. I used to work in a […]
Coming Soon: Build a Single Speed Bike Podcast
Looking to fix up your bike for summer? My next podcast will teach you how to make an awesome single speed bike from a few junk bikes! My buddy Dave who messes around with bikes obsessively taught me a lot about bike building and the video is turning out great. I can’t wait to release […]
Bicycle wheel table
I really like this bicycle wheel table @ Made in Design, seems like a good (re)make – [via] Link. More tables: Knife, fork and spoon table – Link. HOW TO – Make a Pinball Coffee Table – Link. Multiprocessor CD-ROM chess table – Link. LED Dining table – Link. 2500 LED pong table – Link. […]
Create a Wii media server
Jason @ Hackszine writes – Wii Media Center X is a Java-based web media server that you can have up and running in about 15 minutes. After downloading and unzipping the application, just run the following command (from the mediacenter folder) to start it up: java -jar MediaCenter.jar Run this on any machine that your […]
Milkscanner V1.0
Fiezi made a 3D scanner using milk, webcam and LEGOs – The Milkscanner is a tool that allows the scanning of objects and creates a Displacement map for use with Moviesandbox or any other 3D App that would allow for displacement mapping. Ingredients: 1 Webcam 1 Tupperware Bowl 3 cups of Milk 1 custom LEGO […]
LED Bike helmet
Great LED bike helmet project from R.Stern – Here is how to add safety LEDs to your bike helmet using conductive paint. I was always losing those lights you clip on to your bike, and they’re not cheap or good quality. instructables : LED Bike Helmet – Link. Related: HOW TO – Make a LED […]
