The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Dave writes – Last year, I and five friends created this scale version of the popular Brio Labyrinth game for Holocene’s Annual Mini Golf Invitational, where artists are asked to create original mini-golf holes. Labyrinth: The Mini-golf Version is just like Labyrinth: the Original Laptop Game, except played with a golf ball instead of a […]
This fairly simple hack uses a Nintendo Wii remote to capture G-force readings in a car, dump it to a CSV (Comma-Separated Values) text file, and then graph it via Excel. The results aren’t the most precise, but apparently good enough to give you some useful feedback on car mods. Wii Remote Measurements [via] – […]
Remember when your momma used to tell you: “Wash your hands after touching that money. You don’t know where it’s been!” Well, now you can reply: “I do so! Let’s see: it first showed up in Dayton, Ohio, five years ago, at a Sonic drive-thru, then it headed south, then west, spending a lot of […]
Make was at the OSHKOSH Air Show on Tuesday and we’ll be back there on Wednesday. Associate Publisher Dan Woods and Contributing Editor Bill Gurstelle are with me at the event. The size of the event is impressive — with a fly-in community pitching tents next to their airplanes. We also watched the air show […]
The Vienna chapter of Dorkbot did a video of their last meeting, focused on game machine hacking. The hacks range from refurbishing and computerizing an analog pinball machine, to an electric guitar casemod (the NES Paul), to making music with the Nintendo DS. The meeting takes place at Metalab, an amazing playground for hackers in […]
Jason has a great how-to on using a Wii remote to control Mac OS X (Keynote) – A couple people wrote in today in response to my post about WiiRemote, the Windows Wiimote input device driver. More specifically, I’ve been reminded that I completely left the similarly capable DarwiinRemote for OS X out of the […]
Woodenbikes writes – A recumbent bike with a very comfy seat. It’s a 35 pount leather executive office chair connected to a 16″ (little girl’s) Princess bike re-welded into a recumbent (recliner bike) and using a piece of another donor bike frame. I built it in honor of “Bike to Work Day”. Office chair bike […]
