The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Pat sent in this week’s video from the National Association of Manufacturers – “…here’s a 6-minute video of the Westfield (Mass.) Manufacturing Company, makers of the Columbia bicycle (from the 1950’s) “bringing health and pleasure to millions of Americans.” Indeed..feel the vintage manufacturing vibe!” Link. Pictured here, a gorgeous 1950 Columbia Bicycle from the Nostalgic.net […]
Here’s a LEGO based system that will always keep a ball on a table – Kenn writes – “This website describes my project to build a functioning ball and plate (B&P) system out of legos. While it’s not perfect, it does work and I can send the ball where ever I want without fear of […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member aTanguay writes – “This is the log of the construction of my ‘MAME’ Arcade cabinet in the late summer of 2005. Another in a long line of hair brained schemes and brutal wastes of time and resources. The main box came together very quickly, then all the little details ate […]
Here’s a huge listing of retro games, and we don’t mean Commodore 64…pictured here, the 1 cent to play ELECTRIC SHOCKER! [via] Link. Someone needs to get these on Flickr.
If you want to apply a meta layer to the virtual world, you can now – SLurl is a way to make your own data/images/web pages appear over specific locations in the virtual world, Second Life. It’s a little like Google maps, and it allows you to teleport directly to that location. We have a […]
Here’s a pretty cool mod to make a Nintendo DS look like an old NES controller. [via] Link.
This is an interesting project, a 3D terrain engine from scratch – if you ever plan to attempt anything like building your own 3D game, it’s a good read of the puzzle solving and compromises involved. Shamus writes – “My goal is to write a terrain engine from the ground up, using entirely new code. […]
