The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
$90 buys a 9V/250mA panel from Dexter Industries, supplying enough juice to power a NXT brick and a single servo. dSolar Systems allow you to power your Lego Mindstorms NXT robot using nothing but the sun! This 9V solar power system is compatible with Lego Mindstorms NXT creations and includes everything you need to get […]
Crafty mama Carrie Lundell did a great job of taking a tutorial on the Savers thrift store site to the max with her garden of zombie Barbie dolls. I love this image of the zombie Barbie assembly line and her daughter “creepifying” one of the dolls. I second Carrie’s emotion when she says she can’t […]
DXF files freely available from Thingiverse user freakinhuge. Been thinking about designing one kinda like this myself, but with a release trigger.
Entertaining video from YouTuber David Alvarez. I have a hard time imagining that he’s not working from a plan of some kind, but just from watching the video, it rather looks like he’s “free-handing” his Heath-Ledger-Joker mosaic. He just stands there, solves each cube to present the right pattern, and sets it in place, apparently without any kind of reference.
I picked up a Miss Cupcake DIY from Vault of Midnight Comics in Ann Arbor this weekend. Being the cupcake lover that I am, my mind started racing with the possibilities of what I could do. Yep, glitter and sequins were at the top of the list.
Over at CRAFT, Rachel Hobson spotted this most excellent LEGO letterpress device, by Justin LaRosa and Samuel Cox.
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, this cool set of five hand-painted Matryoshka dolls from user funnypolynomial. The tiny solder blob goes inside the diode goes inside the LED goes inside the resistor goes inside the capacitor.
