The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Open Circuits is a wiki for sharing electronics knowledge, schematics, board layouts, and parts libraries. So far 39 articles have been submitted – let’s see if this takes off! Link. Pictured here, circuit diagram from the 24″ Wall Clock on the wiki.
Paco Rabanne defined fashion in the 60’s by experimenting with different kinds of materials. Says Rabanne in 1966, “I defy anyone to design a hat, coat or dress that hasn’t been done before…The only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials“. Enter in the disc dress (left photo) made of small […]
MAKE subscriber Bill has a great kite building blog along with a lot of resources and photos Link. Kite Aerial Flickr photo set. Kite building forums. Pictured here, a geodesic dome that looks like a golf ball when photographed from up above. Related: Kite Aerial Photography Puts Your Eye in the Sky by Charles C. […]
Drawings and more from one of the original Makers – Leonardo da Vinci. [via] Link. Pictured here – drawing of a flying machine, 1488.
Juiceboxfan has some photos of an XD socket hack, NAND flash hack and a MP3 kit socket extender hack for the low-cost (now hackable) kid’s toy – the Juicebox Link. If you’re interested in building your own projects with a Juicebox, here’s a good place to get started. Also, see previous Juicebox hacking posts and […]
Steve DeGroof built a MAME cabinet almost entirely from materials found around his house. Total cost of purchased materials: ~$100. Check out the build photos and comments on how he did it. Link. Previous MAME project here.
Run homebrew games on the DS – “PassMe gives you the ability to test your programs on the DS hardware, not just in an emulator and allows you to download demo’s from the internet and play them on your DS. It redirects the DS to a GBA Flash cart, so you can run your own […]
