The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
MAKE subscriber Bill has a great kite building blog along with a lot of resources and photos Link. Kite Aerial Flickr photo set. Kite building forums. Pictured here, a geodesic dome that looks like a golf ball when photographed from up above. Related: Kite Aerial Photography Puts Your Eye in the Sky by Charles C. […]
Drawings and more from one of the original Makers – Leonardo da Vinci. [via] Link. Pictured here – drawing of a flying machine, 1488.
Juiceboxfan has some photos of an XD socket hack, NAND flash hack and a MP3 kit socket extender hack for the low-cost (now hackable) kid’s toy – the Juicebox Link. If you’re interested in building your own projects with a Juicebox, here’s a good place to get started. Also, see previous Juicebox hacking posts and […]
Steve DeGroof built a MAME cabinet almost entirely from materials found around his house. Total cost of purchased materials: ~$100. Check out the build photos and comments on how he did it. Link. Previous MAME project here.
Run homebrew games on the DS – “PassMe gives you the ability to test your programs on the DS hardware, not just in an emulator and allows you to download demo’s from the internet and play them on your DS. It redirects the DS to a GBA Flash cart, so you can run your own […]
Pat sent in this week’s video from the National Association of Manufacturers – “…here’s a 6-minute video of the Westfield (Mass.) Manufacturing Company, makers of the Columbia bicycle (from the 1950’s) “bringing health and pleasure to millions of Americans.” Indeed..feel the vintage manufacturing vibe!” Link. Pictured here, a gorgeous 1950 Columbia Bicycle from the Nostalgic.net […]
Here’s a LEGO based system that will always keep a ball on a table – Kenn writes – “This website describes my project to build a functioning ball and plate (B&P) system out of legos. While it’s not perfect, it does work and I can send the ball where ever I want without fear of […]
