The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Over the weekend, MAKE’s web producer Jake Spurlock and I headed to nearby San Francisco to watch amateur pilots and engineers test their skills at human powered flight in the Red Bull Flugtag.Though it first started in 1991, this year’s flugtag (“flying day” in German) marked the 10th anniversary of the event’s U.S. debut in San Francisco in 2002.
Red Bull’s Kluge Rube Goldberg Machine was built over 17 days by Syyn Labs (who also built that OK Go RGM using over 100 builders and 25 tons of material. Not to be a naysayer but I’d much rather watch a video of a bunch of nerds trying to set up a RGM (or better […]
PublicLaboratory is a fantastic citizen scientist organization with really useful projects like DIY spectrometers (for finding out what’s really in stuff) and aerial mapping for monitoring of oil spills, landfills, etc. They’ve done some fantastic work using the continuous shooting mode of consumer cameras, including converting them to near infrared. The problem is that there is […]
Check out this tiny marble machine.
Data lovers, this week Make: Projects community member Mike Westerfield shared a pair of intriguing how-tos detailing how to fly a TI SensorTag and an iPhone on a model rocket to find acceleration, rotation, and pressure, then collect and analyze the data using a Bluetooth link to the iPhone and techBASIC.
Video games got their start in bars, so it was only fitting that the cocktail-style arcade cabinet would come to be. Check out this mod from redditor franchy36. Built into an IKEA Malm chest of drawers, with a slide-out controller, this stylish retro arcade game turns into a working piece of furniture when not in use.
Here’s a novel way to make sure you never misplace your keys — attach them to a piece of Lego.
