The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Sculptor Dustin Wallace, whose intricately machined Transformers for grown-ups and sheet metal origami robots I have been raving about for some months, now, is at it again. These are a selection of choice work-in-progress shots from his latest build, called Sentry. Besides the arm blades, when finished, it will have hoses and canisters containing liquid on its back and a glowing LED in the eye.
This young maker built a pneumatic-powered Lego version of the Most Useless Machine. Here’s another take on a Lego-based Useless Machine that we posted about earlier. Pneumatic Lego Uselessness! More: The Most Useless Machine (Complete build instructions on Make: Projects) Mark on The Colbert Report (video) From the pages of MAKE Volume 23: MAKE Volume […]
We decided to stick to the theme of mixed reality projection games, developing a custom WaterFire version of the classic Frogger Game. Players were invited to wear a helmet rigged with infrared LED’s which let them control a virtual frog trying to cross the treacherous WaterFire-themed street.
In the spirit of this Make Magazine-affiliated event, we are sharing our software that ran the game, along with some instructions here. We will also be posting a video of the event soon.
Simon’s Arduino zombie game shows a lot of promise. He wants to add LEDs for cool and a LCD to display game information. Wouldn’t it be excellent to have knock sensors on the zombies to determine hit location? Dome shot for true death, anything else and they get back up again.
Nothing can be more geek crafts than crocheting a cute crochet robot! Our Cro-Bot pattern by Beth Doherty was featured in the issue of CRAFT:01. Don’t you love the hip headphones? Put on your favorite jams this weekend and enjoy crocheting this cute robot. Download the Pattern PDF | Subscribe in iTunes Right click to […]
Polish AFOL Paul “Sarial” Kmiec (who built this neat robot arm) has created a Lego gear ratio calculator that lets you create complicated sets of gears and gives you speed, torque and ratios. Another tool lets you position two axles, then tells you what gears will work with that configuration. Lastly, you can choose which […]
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, photo and build by user JustJon. It uses an Arduino + adafruit Wave Shield to play the Doctor Who theme and flash the siren light. There’s more info, plus video, at JustJon’s personal site.
