The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
As a kid with two older brothers, I knew how important it was to be the first to crack open a new box of cereal and sift through the contents for the toy inside. I remember fishing out a plastic toy submarine and I absolutely loved it. When you filled the submarine’s compartment with baking […]
Mike Brandl’s Globe Plotter can draw the shapes of the continents on a white ball. For this robot the coordinates of the continents were prepared as a zigzag line, drawn with a green felt tip pen. After the continents are drawn the robot switches colors from green to black. With this pen the continents are […]
A Marine’s battlefield chess set made from shells, rounds, and bottle caps.
Sony suffers second data breach with theft of 25m more user details @ Technology | guardian.co.uk… The crisis at Sony deepened on Tuesday as it admitted that an extra 25 million customers who played games on its Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) PC games network have had their personal details stolen – and that they were […]
A small serving of genius from Instructables user Supernewby. [via CRAFT]
Teri from Giddy Giddy shares how she created this simple and charming twirly toy over on Book Hour Craft Projects. A little experimentation with wire, one of my favorite mediums, had my children in awe. I’ve made a number of things for them, but this simple toy impresses them most because it is set in […]
This is an experiment with Kinect and Processing. People in front of it are posing like Han Solo and get frozen in 3D. We are already exporting the 3D models for 3D printing. So stay tuned. The software will be open source soon if anyone is interested. [Thanks, Michael!]
