Vacuum tube chess
Not sure how it is to play on this board, but it sure looks cool. Paul Fryer – Chess Set for Telsa
Toys and Games
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)
LEGO tank has full interior detailing
There’s so much amazing work coming out of the AFOL* community these days that it can be hard to single out any particular work as outstanding. Nonetheless, mad_a0’s mini-fig scale tank, with full interior detail, is, well… outstanding. Bravo! Via The Brothers Brick. *That’s “Adult Fans of LEGO” for you non-blockheads out there.
