The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Chris writes in with some great bike sculptures! – I’ve been making sculptures with broken bicycle components and finally got round to taking photos of them. The sculptures are harder to make than you’d think because they are bolted together using existing holes rather than welded like the stuff you sometimes see in stores. The […]
Michael writes in with an Atari style joystick interface made with an Arduino – I just wanted to show you the Atari joystick interface that I made. A friend had challenged me to create an interface to an Atari style joystick. I thought immediately of the Arduino microcontroller board. I interfaced the joystick to the […]
Jenny writes in – This tutorial will show you how to stream your iTunes music library to your Wii through the Opera browser. The Opera browser can be download to your Wii for free from the “Wii Shop Channel.” This tutorial will work with both a Mac and a PC. Things you’ll need: Nintendo Wii […]
Chad writes – I was able to get an Arduino board to read in data from a wii nunchuck. You can read the joystick, buttons and accelerometer data. Using the nunchuck is even cheaper than buying an acceleromter by itself. Read wii nunchuck data into arduino | Windmeadow Labs – [via] Link.
Brian @ GeekDad shows you how to make your own LEGO ice cube trays, he writes.. – First things first: Making your own Lego ice cube trays is emphatically not cheaper than buying them straight out from from Lego. It is probably more fun, and since I wanted to learn mold-making, it gave me an […]
Simple and easy LEGO fridge magnets, build on top of them for wonderful horizontal LEGO creations! – Link.
If you’re in to old bikes check out the Japanese Bicycle History Research Club & the intro essay History of the ordinary in Japan by Yukio Ootsu – Documented information on high wheel bicycles in Japan is extremely scarce. It is quite incomplete and seems quite impossible to prove when the first ordinary appeared in […]
