The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Alan writes – “Philippe Hurbain has created a pneumatic LEGO wheel. This wheel has no electronics and is controlled by two hand pumps, also made from LEGO. There are very detailed construction details available on his site that were created using LeoCAD and some LeoCAD plugins.” [via] – Link.
This is pretty neat, etching the ships you “play” on to glasses, Mark writes – “…my favorite 3pointD crossover of recent weeks has been the pint glasses that the father of one of my corp-mates has been engraving for us based on screenshots of in-game ships. Pictured above is an Executioner, an Amarr frigate designed […]
Mark Wallace over at the excellent new 3pointd blog has a great real-virtual world blurring mapping “mashup” – he also has some interesting examples and glimpses of future applications – “A local clothing designer has a small shop in a neighborhood across town. You want to shop there, but you don’t have time. So you […]
Bert writes – “The Devantech SFR04 Ultrasonic Range Finder indicates the distance to the closest object within range. Echo’s that arrive later are received and processed, but subsequently ignored. For a true radar all signals should be taken into account. So, time to heat up the old soldering iron and make some modifications to the […]
Neil writes – “Here is an inexpensive way to create a three dimensional pointing device. Take a working mechanical wheel mouse (the type with a scrolling wheel). Remove the ball. Drill some holes in the sides and run a string into the mouse, around the horizontal roller, and out the other side. Reroute the sensors […]
This is pretty neat – control WoW with an Xbox 360 controller, it use a “router” that turns the Xbox 360 controller into mouse and keyboard inputs, I haven’t tried this yet, but it might work with other games/apps too – [via] – Link.
Warcraft virtual-worlders, this is for you…Fruminator writes – “As of OGLE 0.3b, it is possible to capture texture coordinates (UV) for vertices that have them. This is enabled by the CaptureTextureCoords flag. Coupled with the fact that GLIntercept writes out to disk images for all the texture maps, this allows you to re-texture your capture […]
