The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Before After Jeff Kinder turned his basement in to a retro gaming heaven, including pumping in ambient arcade sounds, he writes “For the final phase of my project I installed 4 speakers up in-between the joists which play all 80’s music and the “Arcade Ambience” sound effect files that I downloaded from Andy Hofle’s website. […]
Here’s a giant NES measuring in at 8 ft. wide, 3ft height, 3ft long, and in weighing in at 400 pounds… [via] Thanks James! – Link (10/01/06 entry). Related: This goes great with the world’s largest NES Controller! – Link. NES archives, hacks, mods and more – Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Aaron writes – “We built an arcade emulation cabinet in under 2 weeks of nights and weekends for a friend’s 30th birthday.” – Link. The detail on this is freaking sweet! Related MAME projects: Mini MAME arcade consoles – Link. nano MAME Cabinet – Link. DIY MAME / Arcade controller […]
Alameda, CA based “Rideable Bicycle Replicas” has an amazing selection of antique replica bicycles, pedicabs, hand-cranked trikes, boneshakers, tricycles, recumbents, surreys, tandems and more. They also sell 1880’s antique bicycle catalog reprints that I cannot help but order… The Old English Roadster is only $189.00, but it’s out stock – darn it [via] – Link. […]
Brass Goggles has a round up (to add to our round up) of more steam powered bicycles including “pete’s steam bike” wow! … – Link. Previous: Steam bicycles – Link. Steam powered motorcycle (photos) – Link. Steam archives on MAKE – Link.
Trebuchet03 writes – “This hack will transform a cheap easily sourced calculator into a versatile counting machine. It can be used as a cheap method to measure distance using a wheel, reed switch and magnet (think bike odometer).” – Link. Clever, it counts by adding +1.
Artist Alexander Laner has a couple neat transportation-playing-art pieces, this motor was slowed down to play a record (33 rpm) mounted to the engine block, and this bicycle plays a record too! [via] – Link. Related: Papercone record player – Link. HOW TO – Copy a vinyl record – Link. Walk that vinyl – Link.
