alt.CES – Mattel Mindflex
Here’s another “mind control” toy, these will be fun to take apart via CrunchGear.
Toys and Games
Electrified Monopoly board
Not to be outdone by her sister Kris, Carly DeGraeve sent us this link to her latest electrified Monopoly board. It lights up the four props in the center of the board when you land on the appropriate squares. She used reed switches and magnets to complete the circuit. Electrified Monopoly – Steampunk Inspired More: […]
Wifi robotified rc car
Got an extra router in your parts pile? How about an wifi enabled robotic car? Wifi Robot: A remote control car that can be driven over the internet or with a laptop wirelessly from up to 500m away. It has a live-feed network camera so that it can be driven without line of sight and […]
alt.CES – Brainwave scanner toys
Ryan writes in- This could make an interesting MAKE hack. I’m sure the brainwave scanner isn’t high quality but it still could be neat to take apart and come up with some projects. Toy trains ‘Star Wars’ fans to use The Force… Could The Force be with you? A toy due in stores this fall […]
Spiffy face lift for an old toy…
Spiffy face lift for an old toy… Luis Fernando Espinal Ceballos of Colombia wanted to give his cousin’s son the slot track racing set he loved as a child. But the toy seemed unbearably old-fashioned. So Luis jazzed it up with a new electronic control system. He dumped the old battery box and replaced it […]
Robotify a remote control car
Recently I have been taking apart and rewiring some remote control cars that I picked up at the town dump or local yard sales. Some of my students have also been in on the fun, and we are aiming to make them into programmable robotic cars. Take a look at the photos and see what […]
pov top tells it both ways
Dhananjay Gadre has created another great project! We recently built a LED spinning top with message display. Its an improved version of a similar top published by Elektor in their December 2008 issue. The Elektor top can be spun only in one direction. The synchronization required to print message on the LEDs arranged along the […]