The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
A maker sent in this rad carbon fiber Xbox 360 controller, but there isn’t any information on how it was made… That’s OK we have a great tutorial on this! – Link. From the pages of MAKE: Working with Carbon Fiber. Form, lay up, and cure your own high-performance composites. Read this article in MAKE: […]
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories writes – We have been using POV-Ray to create 3D models and render bitmap slices that can be printed with the CandyFab 4000, our home-built 3D sugar fabricator. One thing that we could do to extend the usefulness of this procedure is to be able to take STL files as input, […]
Kyri writes – I first made this game when I was around 11 or 12, when I was on some rant about how the original Operation dude didn’t wear any underpants. I told my mom she shouldn’t let my younger brother play the game because it was inappropriate (I didn’t actually believe this, though, I […]
Pyrofer writes – Here’s a single chip game watch – using only a nokia 3310lcd and a pic 12f683. I’ve written a boulderdash clone you can wear on your wrist powered by a single cr2032 battery, lasting several days & the whole thing is very low power. Large scrolling maps mean the small screensize isnt […]
mp4 | ipod | mov | hd-appletv | 3gp | 3g2 | pdf | itunes | youtube Make your bike into a single speed hipster bike! This week Dave Neff joins me to take some old broken bikes and mash them up into a new radical ride. Everbody’s experience will be different, but we rebuilt […]
This week the Make: PDFcast is a comicbook pdf all about converting your old trashy bike into a snazzy single speed bike. I went a little nuts making it up in Comic Life. There’s lots of good tips in this pdf, but honestly, your best bet is to just get some tools and go to […]
Gattobus writes – Nice experiment using my Nintendo Wiimote as a controller for the OSC frequency of my Moog Little Phatty… (Check out the OSC knob cursor moving on the LP)It sound like a Theremin ;-) Nintendo Wiimote Theremin with Moog Little Phatty – [via] Link.
