Skeeball Machine Made Entirely with K’Nex
A full-size skeeball game took over a year to make, and is built entirely with K’Nex components.
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See Light Trikes and Crowd Connect at Maker Faire Bay Area
Two pieces new to Maker Faire Bay this weekend area will be Light Trikes and Crowd Connect. The team from Frog made digital games physical and physical games digital. They explain the hardware and software behind their epic builds. Come play at Maker Faire Bay Area, this weekend, May 19th and 20th.
How-To: Travel Checkers
Tanya from Grand Revival Design recently published her new book, Sew What You Love: The Easiest, Prettiest Projects Ever. To celebrate, she stopped by Sew, Mama, Sew! to talk about the book and share her adorable travel checkers pattern, which you can download for free on the site!
Book Review + Project Excerpt: Make Stuff Together, by Bernadette Noll and Kathie Sever
Make Stuff Together: 24 Simple Projects to Create as a Family, by Bernadette Noll and Kathie Sever Book Site: Future Craft Collective Make Stuff Together is the work of two women who’ve made it their mission to help families create together. Bernadette Noll and Kathie Sever run the Austin, TX-based Future Craft Collective, which offers […]
Ben Heck’s quadruple Rock Band Stage Kit mod
In this episode of The Ben Heck Show, Ben modifies the Rock Band Stage Kit, to create four synced stage light modules, adds control buttons to the game mic, and modifies a Rock Band guitar to make it “clickier.” He also finishes the Xbox 360 laptop build he’s been working on over the last six […]
PlayStation controller coffee table
Mark M (Australia) sent us links to pics of this awesome coffee table he made: I made the PlayStation controller coffee table for my year 12 major work, as an Industrial Technology project. I made the whole controller out of plywood, MDF, and veneer on veneer. The whole project took me 20 weeks on and […]
Real R/C cars meet racing arcade action
Via the HacDC Blabber list comes this giddy-with-awesome cardboard racetrack with camera-mounted R/C cars and an arcade racing cockpit where the driver controls the vehicle. The builder, Malte Jehmlich, says he spent several months working on the project. It’s WipEout meets vintage R/C racing. I want! [Thanks, Daniel Packer!] Racer
