Stretta managed to build a fully functional (and apparently quite fun) foosball table from LEGO parts – My son is really attracted to foosball tables, and, if I’m honest, I’d have to say I am too. I considered the idea of buying a small, tabletop unit, but I was unsure how much use it’d see. […]
OK, Jay, this clip takes a bit of set-up. Basically, it’s a model of a factory-floor machine for moving pallet around a square assembly line. You put a pushing arm at each corner of the square and trigger them alternately in caddy-corner pairs. S
More Dorkbot Austin goodness! John Boiles demonstrated this radio-controlled car steered using his iPod’s built-in accelerometer via its built-in WiFi transceiver. All you have to do is tilt the iPod, and the car goes. It starts to move around 1:10.
More awesomeness from Terra of Halloween Forum. The UV-reactive bubble juice is from Tekno Bubbles.
Pretty amazing yard art by YouTuber koUNit1. [via Geekologie] Make: Halloween Contest 2009 Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.
Mario Caicedo Langer just posted a bunch of pics to the Make: Flickr Pool showing off his “Battlizer.”
Reader Mike Wakefield made this robot costume for his son, Arlen. It has batteries and blinky lights! Beep boop beep!
