The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Volunteerlabrat has a clever DIY 3D scanner you can make using a web camera and fairly simple rotating table (the 3D scanner script written in matlab to take the pictures on the site too)… [via] – Link. Related: Homemade 3D Scanner – Link. Project Splinescan – Cheap 3D scanning – Link.
Wow, check out these dishwasher safe, silicone, 10 brick LEGO ice cube trays, $7.99. Someone is totally going to make a crazy huge LEGO ice sculpture with these, and we’ll dutifully post it here!… [via] – Link. Related: LEGO projects on MAKE – Link & archives.
Here’s how to add a laser pointer to a LEGO NXT bot… [via] – Link. Related: LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT goes open source – Link. Blockheads – LEGO: The ultimate prototyping material. Seriously. MAKE 02 – Page 36.
Slofly has a low cost brushless electric propulsion system, also known as a DIY electric bike… [via] – Link. Related: Eric Peltzer’s Electric Bicycle – Link. Electric Bicycle – Battery updgade – Link. Homemade electric scooter – Link.
Alan writes – “Rob M. from Michigan bought some parts from our store and was nice enough to share the resulting project with us. His son Will has an antique bike on display, it has an old acetylene light on it that hasn’t produced any light for many years. A few well placed LED sure […]
Here’s a great homemade Commodore 64 joystick made from wood! Matthias writes – “My motivation for this little hack, like many other hacks, was not so much the novelty of building one, but avoiding the expense of buying one. Having a Commodore 64, and not wanting to spend money buying a joystick, I started experimenting […]
Joe has a good Instructable on hacking together a bike from parts you might find/have/get, he writes – “This is a guide to building up a bike from parts. It should help you get the parts and tools you need to get you pedalling along in no time. It assumes that you have tinkered with […]
