As you may already know, November is Maker Hobbies month here online, a chance for us to geek out over the stuff each of us like to make, as a form of relaxation, fun, flexing our creative muscles, and indulging specialized interests that maybe our family and friends don’t totally understand. For instance, I’m a […]
Over on our Make: Projects platform, our old pal Stefan Jones shows you how simple it is to create your own nichrome igniters for model rocket motors, using little more than nichrome wire, masking tape, and some lacquer paint, hobby dope, or nail polish. How-To: Make your own model rocket igniters
Apart from the fact that the bricks and plates are open at their bottoms, and so the pieces always have one side that can’t be “smooth,” Lego is a pretty handy way to prototype interlocking solid puzzles. Many of these are based on cubic units, and can be built in Lego at a scale of 1 cube = 2 studs x 2 studs x 5 plates.
Eric Harshbarger, whose Lego hijinks we’ve featured a couple times before, has produced some lovely models based on this principle. Shown above are his 6-piece burr, checkered solid pentominoes, Soma cube, and deluxe polycube set. The awesomeness continues at Eric’s site.
This hobby rocketeer made a very simple camera mount and payload bay for this el cheapo Aiptek digital camera. Using an adjustable hole cutter tool, some plywood, Bondo, polycarbonate tubing, and some hardware, he built a simple but effective camera bay. Here’s a video from the rocket’s POV. Going Aiptek More: How-To: Make your own […]
Woohoo! I’ve been looking forward to this one for a long time. I have painted a few minis in my time, but my eyes are almost always bigger than my stomach when it comes to buying and planning elaborate armies. Thankfully, there’s plenty of eye-candy out and about the web, and in our own archives, to satisfy my long-standing dreams vicariously. Here’s a list of top content that can get you started on your own mad schemes. Happy Friday!
A FPV (First Person View) vision system installed in an R/C model plane Since we’re all a bunch of overgrown geeky kids here at MAKE, we’re thrilled to announce that November is Maker Hobbies month! We’re not tremendously comfortable with the idea of limiting what constitutes a “maker hobby,” since a maker can be anybody […]
Our buddy Fra Fondi, of Hobby Media/Xtreme RC Cars, was at the Nuremberg Toy Fair last week. He sent us email with some of the things he was most excited about, including this Grossi 2-stroke, 3.5cc R/C car engine that’s water-cooled! Looks amazing. Grossi’s 1/8 Rally Buggy Racer, using this new engine, will be available […]
