The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Lots of chatter about virtual worlds lately and what / if they’re good for, how they make money and what people are doing in them. My 3 interests in this space, at least for now… – Using virtual worlds to make 3D objects and then take the information out for a 3D printer – Link. […]
Peter writes – “Hey MAKE, very excited about this one. The creator of DSMIDI, the wired / hacked cartridge for MIDI cable connections… and the creator of NitroTracker (see my music app roundup for DS) … have teamed up to create a completely open source solution for sending MIDI wirelessly to and from the DS. […]
Last night, in a dark alleyway in the depths of the industrial district in Seattle the sport of shovercraft was born. Here’s a sneak preview of the hovercrafts we made! Watch the games this Friday in the weekend project podcast! Click here to subscribe in itunes and have them downloaded automatically as soon as they […]
Atomic Zombie Extreme Machines writes – “It’s always fun when building a chopper from a complete bicycle to keep some of the original character in the bike. Like one of the other choppers we built, Granny’s Nightmare, I try to keep the theme of the original mountain bike in this chopper, The Mountain Lion. To […]
Fred, the winner of our put MAKE on a Wii request sent in how you can get to websites on your Nintendo Wii… He writes: Basically it’s very easy but it didnt work until i restarted my computer. Most of the info was from here… Install Simple DNS Plus Go to Tools -> Edit DNS […]
Neato, the new Wii has a browser built in meant for using the Wii store, but just as you could hack around the PSP’s online feature when it shipped using a tricksy proxy, you can do the same with the Wii and trick it to go to other sites like google, Digg, Make, you know […]
One of our makers Brian “DoctaBu” Moore IM’ed and said he was going to make a wireless Wii bar, and wireless Wii bar is what was made, he writes – “With just a bit of perf board, a few cables, some skillful soldering, four AA batteries, and a few IR LEDs, one can easily make […]
