The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Propeller driven bicycle, Popular Science 1936 and surely coming soon to a Critical Mass ride – Link. Related: Bicycle projects @ MAKE – Link. Bicycle archives @ MAKE – Link. From the pages of MAKE: The Rocketman’s Garage, rocket powered bicycles! Meet Minnesota’s celebrated thrill-machine maker. MAKE 05 – Page 154. Subscribers–read this article now […]
Great DIY bicycle / hackery blog! Link.
Sean writes – I saw the post on Mobius Chess, and thought I’d point you towards Schrödinger’s Pawn, a chess variant based on quantum mechanics. This is another game that would be challenging to build in the real world (though possible, with a couple of web cams and a video mixer). DD37: Schrödinger’s pawn – […]
This Mobius chess puzzle might be fun to (physically) make – This chess board is on a Mobius strip. The length is infinite (and wraps) but the width is only four squares. There are no pieces on the hidden sides. Some of the pieces are hard to read: the White Queen is on top, the […]
Ben Heckendorn’s has been making amazing portable console systems (like the VCSp) for 7 years, check out post about this and the rest of his work – It was 7 years ago (ish) that I completed my first video game portable – the original VCSp. How do I know this? Well I had it sitting […]
trebuchet03 made a DIY version of the Xtracycle for cargo carrying – aka: Homemade sport utility bike (SUB) Link.
From Popular Science 1938 – a fantastic bicycle made from a bed frame! Link.
