Bamboo Bike Studio Expanding
The Brooklyn-based Bamboo Bike Studio (BBS), where DIY’ers make their own bike frame out of bamboo in a two-day workshop, is opening satellite studios and branching out into the assembly of steel frame bikes.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
SpeedBall Transatlantic Balloon at Maker Faire Detroit
LVL1 Hackerspace’s White Star Balloon team is going to be showing off the SpeedBall balloon system at MakerFaire Detroit, July 30 & 31 at The Henry Ford museum.
How-To: “Diamond Lock” Puzzle Journal
Here’s another beautiful bit of wooden puzzle design and craftsmanship from Denver metagrobologist Kagen Schaefer. The locking mechanism was recently reverse-engineered by Instructables user dombeef, who has made a working paper version.
Homebrew — My DIY King Pong
Sitting around a campfire last summer, we decided the world really needed a gigantic outdoor version of Pong that could turn up in the most unlikely places.
Hackerspace Happenings: Power Racing Series Gears Up for Maker Faire
Imagine grown men and women racing souped-up Power Wheels and similar ride-on children’s toy cars. We’re talking about the Power Racing Series (PPPRS), a hackerspace-centric competition that tests makers’ machining and electronics acumen while encouraging style and moxie.
E.T. Rings
Shannon Larratt cast some ET rings from a mold made from a plastic toy. His fiance’s engagement ring is from Deadringer, so he wanted to stick with the theme and make E.T.’s head another adornment. He’s tried casting in pewter as well as a plastic with suspended nickel powder.
PING! Augmented Pixel Videogame System
Niklas Roy has built an addictive-looking 70’s-style videogame system that is “controlerless” like an Xbox Kinect, yet charmingly low-rez like Pong. What I found interesting when I developed this game, is, that it could have been made already in the seventies. The technology that I used for it is (in a way) similar to what […]
