Hardware Chess Sets
Here is a collection of chess sets built from mechanical and electrical bits, mostly nuts, bolts, and washers of various flavors.
Toys and Games
Vacuum tube chess
Not sure how it is to play on this board, but it sure looks cool. Paul Fryer – Chess Set for Telsa
Future death machine nose art
I’m pretty sure this TrueType font designed in 1998 by the now-apparently-defunct “Dragon’s Den Type Foundry” was intended for players of Games Workshop’s Warhammer: 40K tabletop wargame. But c’mon, seriously: what project wouldn’t be improved by a little faux-fascist heraldry? Perhaps a flying skull transfixed by a dagger and with lightning shooting from its eyes? […]
“Cause I’m a Rocket Fan…”
Ryan Bavetta, of Crazy Builders, bolted a 3.7 HP model airplane engine onto the back of a skateboard to create this rocket board. Propeller Powered Skateboard [via PopSci]
Kidlaunching!
kidlauncher from connors934 on Vimeo. Kidlaunching is a variation on the slip and slide model of backyard/park fun. What we did this day was lay out a hundred feet or so of plastic sheet on the grass, tied a gigantic elastic band to a tree and poured water from a park fountain over the plastic […]
Flashback: Head-Mounted Water Cannon
When the fabulous Pontani Sisters engage in their covert after-hours life of fighting crime, they use a select arsenal of weaponry. Seen above are the sisters in action with the Head-Mounted Water Cannon from MAKE Volume 07. John Young shared this lively DIY with us in 2006, along with this hilarious intro: Let’s face it: […]
WoooOOSH! – Arduino space cruiser! … sorta
Technology … the electronic frontier. These are the voltages of Arduino microcontroller. It’s 54 I/O pins … to explore new circuitry, to bring forth new devices and experimentation. To totally make tons of LEDs blink! — WOOooosh – PEW! PEW! – BZzZTtT! *ahem* (Arduino Mega via MakerShed, ScrewShield by Wingshield Industries)