Printable cross-link ellipse gears
Thiingiverse user natetrue created this printable version of user stickoutrock’s laser-cut cross-linked elliptical gear toy. Somebody post some video, please!
Toys and Games
Alt.CES: Crabfu’s moonbuggy mashup
I-Wei, of Crabfu Steamworks, took a Losi Micro Crawler and added Space Voyager moonbuggy parts and an astronaut to create a moon rover that can really tackle some rough terrain. Another cool Crabfu project. It was interesting to get this video from him last night. I had just gotten home from an art show of […]
Lego minifig snowperson
I assume that minifigs are gender-neutral in the absence of characteristic clothing or hairpieces. Danes Bjarne Tveskov and family are responsible for Lego Leslie, here. [via The Brothers Brick]
Toy train used to calibrate fusion reactor
While Princeton University’s National Spherical Torus Experiment was shut down for improvements over the winter break, scientists and engineers availed themselves of the opportunity to recalibrate the reactor’s neutron sensors. To do so, they assembled a circular toy train track around the torus and ran a toy locomotive carrying a chunk of neutron-emitting californium-247 along it for three days. The New York Times explains:
Alt.CES: RC heli with streaming video & iPhone control
The recently announced AR.Drone from Parrot may be the coolest toy I’ve ever seen. The AR.Drone quadricopter is controlled by iPhone & iPod Touch via wifi and provides a live video stream from the unit’s ‘cockpit’. It uses a second onboard cam facing downward to measure speed and compensate for turbulence, and in case of […]
Cool brain gear doodad
According to Thingiverse user mappum, who recently published an STL version of a similar gizmo these beautiful do-nothings are printed to test commercial rapid prototyping machines.
Mummified alien hand prop
Supposedly from the personal wunderkammer of Austinite video game bazillionaire Richard Garriott. Some of the other items are NSFW. [via Propnomicon]
