The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Nbolt writes – “Sela the dog gets a treat by someone IMing her the word “treat.” The IM program parses the word “treat” and plays a sound that triggers the mic sensor on the Lego MindStorms NXT robot. Soon you’ll be able to see if the dog is around at boltron.com/sela. I have also setup […]
Kevin writes – “Ever had that urge to design your own computer game? Well, here’s some help. In 2000, Ari Feldman wrote a book called Designing Arcade Computer Game Graphics. It’s long out of print, but Ari Feldman has allowed the book to be distributed electronically.” – Link & downloads.
Mike wins. Mike Yates plays lasertag. Now, I’m not talking about the kind of game that you might get in on down at the Family Fun Center, amusement park, or around your neighborhood using some toy… Over the next 10 months, Mike and his pal/fellow laser hacker Duncan, designed and built the ultimate LTTO compatible […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Mushmouth26 made his own DIY poker table- “This is a $99 plastic table from Sams. I modified with cup holders for poker games. The table itself works great for poker. The problem was that the cards would get wet from the sweat coming off the beer… I made the middle […]
Jon writes – “One of my friends is a manager at a local movie theater, which uses a digital projector to show advertisements between features. After seeing the It Burns When I Wii video, we figured we could one-up it with the equivalent of a 344″ television screen. We wanted to use my friend’s Nintendo […]
Peter writes – “Here’s a cool kit that will allow you to transform your mountain bike into a bike that you can ride on the snow! You just add the front ski and the back rear-drive and you’re set. No tools required.” [via] – Link.
Spark Fun Electronics poked at the EPROM on the Wii, fun stuff– “We just couldn’t not do it. We had to see what was on the Wii EEPROM. There’s surprising amount of 8051 instructions actually. How neat! We hot-aired off the EEPROM and soldered it down to our SSOP breakout board. We then hooked up […]
