The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
designboom on water guns… – one of the most humble pieces of weaponry to emerge out of the cold war era is the water gun. fueled by space race iconography such as ray guns, water pistols are now as much a part of a kid’s or big kid’s summer as popsicles or sunburn. water guns […]
Windell of Evil Mad Scientist Labs got a copy of the new No Starch Press title “Forbidden LEGO.” He explains the idea behind the book: Forbidden Lego is written by a pair of Lego master builders, who used to work in designing advanced Lego sets (e.g., Mindstorms). While they obviously got to work on lots […]
Scott Beale, of Laughing Squid, points out that The Almost-Annual Matt Armbruster Memorial Big Wheel Rally is happening this Saturday (August 25th) in Boulder, CO. The event is a benefit for Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation. If you’re interested in participating, there’s still time to register. The Almost-Annual Matt Armbruster Memorial Big Wheel Rally – Link […]
Pekar sent in this collection of “Make-It-Yourself PONG systems” outstanding! – Link.
Tyler writes in – My blog is intended to eventually become a resource for amateur robotics (with personal reviews and links to great articles on the subject), but I’ve included an arcade project that I thought readers of Make might be interested in. I’ve built 7 MAME arcade cabinets from scratch, the story of the […]
Here’s a work-in-progress, from a guy who’s building a mini UAV, using a Blade CX2 R/C helicopter and the awesome Parallax Propeller Chip. He writes of the build: The CX2 controller has 4 potentiometers into which I spliced a breadboard. A Parallax Propeller (prop chip) is used to read the control stick voltages through a […]
Jason Scott posted a collection of 1,700 arcade manuals in PDF format, he writes – If you were saying to yourself “Now, where can I browse over 1,700 arcade manuals in PDF format?”, your prayers were just answered. This is over three gigabytes of manuals, schematics, and general information about arcade machines, scanned in by […]
