The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Greg writes – “Well, I sadly could not find my original code for my line following robot that I talked about a few months ago when I wrote the article on it. I was at my parent’s house last weekend, and was lucky enough to find it. I wanted to make it available for anyone […]
Jay writes – “An RPG in a week, starting from scratch? How hard could it be? I did it because of a dare. There are many great resources available to small, budget-conscious independent game developers today. On a public forum, in a counter-rant, I expressed this fact by bragging that if you gave me a […]
Frank writes – “Semi-custom stealth kit for Electric Bicycles in backward regions (Still not legal in Ontario…) Lower Center of gravity via Batteries in Saddle Bags, and active cooling on the controller…” – Link.
Alan writes – “Philippe Hurbain has created a pneumatic LEGO wheel. This wheel has no electronics and is controlled by two hand pumps, also made from LEGO. There are very detailed construction details available on his site that were created using LeoCAD and some LeoCAD plugins.” [via] – Link.
This is pretty neat, etching the ships you “play” on to glasses, Mark writes – “…my favorite 3pointD crossover of recent weeks has been the pint glasses that the father of one of my corp-mates has been engraving for us based on screenshots of in-game ships. Pictured above is an Executioner, an Amarr frigate designed […]
Mark Wallace over at the excellent new 3pointd blog has a great real-virtual world blurring mapping “mashup” – he also has some interesting examples and glimpses of future applications – “A local clothing designer has a small shop in a neighborhood across town. You want to shop there, but you don’t have time. So you […]
Bert writes – “The Devantech SFR04 Ultrasonic Range Finder indicates the distance to the closest object within range. Echo’s that arrive later are received and processed, but subsequently ignored. For a true radar all signals should be taken into account. So, time to heat up the old soldering iron and make some modifications to the […]
