The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
This movie was made entirely in Second Life, and every object you see was made by a person, even the cameras are scriptable objects. There’s a lot of machinima and DIY film making going on, so if you’re interested with what’s possible with this “tool” of sorts check it out. I really want to play […]
Shawn Bonkowski sent in these wonderful photos and write up from the Floor It! project that he developed with Mike Albers – Link. Idea/Problem/Context The idea was to create a compelling competitive experience for boys 7-10 years old. We were interested in creating a bridge between physical and virtual play. The solution needed to be […]
We love SketchUp – at Macworld 2006 we gave it “Best of Show” and on Pi day 3/14 (ironic!) they were acquired by Google – congrats gang! Link. Download the free trial here and get making! – Link. Pictured here, a very cool house drawing from Alvaro Carnicero from the “Sketchup” tag on Flickr – […]
Great write up and links to a lot of fun (and free) games – “Each year some of the hottest independent games are featured at the Independent Games Festival (IGF) during the Game Developers Conference. GDC kicks off next week, and we’ll be there in full force. But before things get heavy, GameSpy and FilePlanet […]
Lik-Sang has a review of a $14 Xbox 360 to PC memory transfer kit – “For those of you who think 64 Megs is just not enough, we have today received stock of the Memory Transfer Kit from Datel for Xbox 360.” – Link. $5 DIY version – Link.
Reminds of the old 80’s coin-op game “Time Traveler” – A central, powerfully inovative development project is the novel input device MRI – Mixed Reality Interface. The new input device MRI – developed by KOMMERZ – opens the use of interactive 3D applications to a broad audience.” – [via] Link. KOMMERZ – Link. Related: You […]
Turn a NES gun into a mouse (good for Duck hunt MAME) – Link.
