The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
This photo essay shows you step by step procedures for dismantling Hasbro’s R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid. Some pretty nice pictures of the surgery complete with details on how to avoid damaging the critical elements inside of the droid. Cracking Open Hasbro’s R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid
Check out this cool steampunk-ified three-wheel recumbent trike. Love the lantern headlights. Ladies And Gentlemen, I Present The Brass Lion! [Thanks, Jeff!]
Appears a user over in the Ladyada.net forums has built an RGB version of the SpokePOV device – pretty impressive. No word on video display capabilities :[ – (brace for advertising blitz should that ever happen) [via Ladaya’s ranting] Related: Light up animated Pac-Man bicycle wheels In the Maker Shed: MiniPOV kit
Another excellent entry for the Make a Cylon contest – this Lego figure turned Cylon mini, complete LED visor action – Lego Cylon on DVICE Don’t forget – There’s still time to enter the Make a Cylon contest. The deadline is 6/14/08 – so polish off / finish up those BSG projects and submit them […]
As part of DIY Drones BlimpDuino Project, Chris Anderson has a new piece up about adding vectoring thrusters to a blimp. How to add vectoring thrusters to a blimp
In this video, Kristin White from TalkTech interviews Bryan Pate, co-founder of PT Motion Works about his elliptiGO glide bike, which is powered by an elliptical training motion. If you missed the elliptiGO at Maker Faire this May, this video is a good introduction. As a former ironman competitor, Bryan explains why this bike is […]
I’m not always all about the NXT, there are just several cool contests going right now, this one from LEGO: NXT NXT…? Are you seeing double? Yes! We are presenting a doubly fun building challenge where you create a robot that uses 2 NXT bricks! We are also giving you double the amount of time […]
