LED-Ring Bike Light
Fabian Erblehner built this cool Lightrider bike light with reed switches triggering the lights, rather than using a microcontroller.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Plastic Pony Wigs
My Little Pony enthusiasts are serious about their ponies. Apparently there’s a whole community of folks who lament the fact that the dolls have actual doll hair that you can brush and style, which looks nothing like the pony cartoon characters. Purists were up in arms. Leave it to a maker to answer their distress […]
NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – Quadcopter Art – Suspicion of Terrorism?
Quadcopter drone group held in London airport on suspicion of terrorism: Fresh from performing at Science Gallery in Dublin last night during the opening of Hack the City, an English group of urbanists, technologists and architects who created GPS-enabled quadcopter drones, were held at London Southend Airport on suspicion of terrorism and recorded under the […]
Did Somebody Say Suzuki SXbox 360?
Spotted this image on G+, with the obligatory chides of being Darwin Award-worthy-dumb and the obvious “Where’s the monitor?” I did some poking around online and found the source article on Team Xbox. Don’t worry, one doesn’t drive and game. This is for park and play only. It’s a Suzuki auto show concept car/geek playpen.
Lego Turing Machine
This is a short documentary about the LEGO Turing Machine built by Jeroen van den Bos and Davy Landman at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam (Netherlands). They built it for CWI’s exposition “Turings Erfenis” in honor of the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth on 23 June 1912. Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician who […]
How-To: Quadrotor Transport Case
Instructables user Brian Ward posted this how-to for building a wooden storage and transport case for quadrotors. Inspiration for this project came from a falling box that broke the frame of his his own hand-built copter.
Time Lapse of a Yoda Bust Being 3D Printed
I love watching this time-lapse video of a MakerBot Replicator printing a Yoda bust, from BusyBotz. Time-lapse is a great way to capture the magic of a 3D printer on camera.
