The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Ricky’s telepresence robot consists of a Mindstorms robot hauling around a Skype-enabled tablet. The robot is controlled by a color sensor which detects color-coded commands on the tablet’s screen and navigates accordingly. [via The NXT Step]
This promo video by sugru really shows some fun stuff you can do with your favorite bricks and some sugru putty. My favorites are the non-standard brick configurations that you can make. No matter how many Lego (or some other building set) you get, there are always more configurations that you wished existed.
This R/C watermelon boat would work better rigged up as trimaran, seeing as it “met with an untimely death after tipping over.” But melon seaworthiness aside, this build would be fun on a warm summer day.
I have been looking for fun DIY handmade gifts to make for my niece and nephew and these easy and cute felt animal puppets by Style Me Pretty are perfect!
I haven’t started my list of New Year resolutions yet, but I’m pretty sure learning to fly a drone quadcopter is going to make the top 10. But after seeing Mad Lab Industries’ exceptionally cool hexapod hexacopter maybe it makes more sense to walk before I fly. Says Mad Labs: So, we have been tossing […]
The first printed Advent calendar was produced in Hamburg between 1902-1903. Close to 110 years later, a maker from Minnesota, Peter Leppik, has updated this traditional seasonal register and brought it into the 21st century. His 3D printed Advent calendar is available on Thingiverse for all to download, print, and mutate. This advent calendar has […]
Turn an old wooden bowl into an awesome acorn bird feeder!
