Gyroid Magnetic Assembly Blocks
A work-in-progress from Thingiverse user searchresults. Each block has twelve 3mm supermagnets installed around its six edges, their polarities alternating so they will click together.
Toys and Games
DIY Homebrew Video Game Cartridges
Got an old Colecovision gathering dust? Don’t give up on it, MAKE contributor Joe Grand (of hacker con badge fame) has detailed instructions on creating your own video game cartridges. In 2001, I wrote a homebrew game for the Atari 2600 called SCSIcide. I created a custom PCB to allow me to make my own […]
Hand-Painted Tolkien-Style “Dwarf” Munny
Beautiful customization of kidrobot’s mini MUNNY toy by Raul Villanueva. Many more views in his Flickr set. [via toycutter]
Cubelets: Modular Robotic Blocks
Cubelets look like they’re the perfect toy for kids that are old enough to be interested in robotics and electronics but not old enough to understand an H bridge: The cubelets standard kit comes with 20 magnetic blocks that can be snapped together to make an endless variety of robots with no programming and no […]
BeeSim Game Using LilyPad and XBee
To teach children about complexity theory, a group from Indiana University created an electronic game called BeeSim using LilyPad Arduinos and XBee radios: During the game children wear a Bee puppet wrist band with embedded electronics to allow for game play. The children have a finite amount of time (45 seconds) to collect and deposit […]
“One of these days I’m gonna get my bricks organezized”
“You mean organized?”
“Organezized. Organezized. It’s a joke. O-R-G-A-N-E-Z-I-Z-E-D…”
“Oh, you mean organezized.”
NXT-Controlled Nerf Gun
Love this project by YouTube user wpavalko. Also see its assembly video. [Via The NXT Step]