The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Israeli inventor Izhar Gafni says he ready to mass-produce a 20-pound bicycle made of cardboard that’s waterproof and even fireproof. There are no metal parts. The chain is actually a car’s timing belt and the tires are made from reconstituted rubber. The cost? Twenty bucks.
Our pal Phoenix Perry sent us this flyer for an awesome game design jam happened next weekend at NYU Poly’s Game Innovation Lab. MAKE is one of the sponsors.
This Piranha plant circuitboard keychain lights up when you plug it into a USB port.
Building a hybrid rocket engine by combining clear acrylic with gaseous oxygen.
Everybody’s favorite bipedal cephalopod, Admiral Ackbar, is faithfully recreated in animatronic detail by Tom Cuthbert and Daniel Valdez. The head and arms are cast in rubber and outfitted with hardware to control facial expressions.
Miguel Valenzuela’s Pancake Bot survived Maker Faire… but not the flight back home to Norway.
M.S. Raynsford’s mechanical game looks super cool! And he’s working on a new version. I finally present to you my mechanical donkey kong V1. A simplified version of the original plan due to time constraints this one rotates the Mario, jumps over the balls and operates the feed and catchment mechanisms. Made almost entirely from […]
