The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Larry writes “The silly, creepy, funny, weird, slightly haunted castle made _entirely_ out of balloons. In October 2004, this 60,000 balloon, 10,000 square foot, family friendly haunted house was built as a community project by 300 volunteers to raise money for cancer research. It was such a hit that it’s being done again in Oct […]
Ben has a new console meets handheld creation – the nPod. The nPod is a NES with 3.5″ screen, runs on 4 AA’s and uses the original NES cartridges, here’s his “how it’s made” page – [via] – Link.
The NXTblog is doing a look back at pre-NXT Mindstorm creations starting off with this one, a LEGO pinball machine – “Designed and built by Gerrit Bronsveld and Martijn Boogaarts, this fully functional pinball machine boasts a number of novel features, including a working coin slot (50 cent Euro coins only, please!), a functional tilt […]
Philo writes “When Bob Kojima announced his rolling ball clock on Lugnet a few months ago, I knew I had to build one someday… I bought a stock of balls on Bricklink, and here is the result. The main modification was the use of a RCX to obtain good long time stability – I finally […]
Using Google Earth and OGLE, 3D “prints” of buildings in NYC – “The 3D buildings OGLE’d from Google Earth are not ready to be 3D printed off the bat. Each building is a composition of multiple vertical volumes that have walls and a ceiling but no floor. By computationally (i.e. hacked up OBJ-file-processing perl script!) […]
Bay Area Makers, MAKE will be at this event, hopefully filming! – “Experience this quintessentially San Francisco art experience, an exciting and incendiary exhibition of innovative and inspiring fire art! Ranging in nature from meditative and quietly interactive to spectacular, high-tech and utterly indefinable – these featured works of art and choreographed fire performances are […]
Team Hassenplug made a connect four LEGO bot, it’s takes a very steady hand…! – “This is a robot that was designed and built to play Connect-Four in a contest against other robots, which it was lucky enough to win. During the event, it didn’t lose any games (once I remembered to plug the AC […]
