The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Martijn “Dino_Martino” Hellemans of the NXT STEP Mindstorms blog has been working on a motorized Lego tank that packs a lot of sophistication. For instance, he uses a MTRMX-Nx multiplexer to control both NXT servos and Technic motors. In addition to rolling around on tank treads, the tank also packs a Badass Lego Guns-style “high […]
Built mostly from Lego Technic elements by Brickshelf user barman, who credits the idea to a model displayed at Brickfest 2006 by one Jason Allermann. Looks like it can’t really expand that far. Still cool, though.
Todd Wilder’s mystery box has eight hidden compartments, which must be opened in a specific order. The ideas for this box came to me a little bit at a time, after my 22-year-old nephew had seen my other boxes on MOCpages and asked me to make a box for him. He wanted me to make […]
Enchanting on every level – bike mods, great cinematography, and a rainbow at the end. Robo-rainbow by mudlevel [via Adafruit]
Becky recently spotted these dubiously-tasteful-but-doubtlessly-amusing accoutrements from Etsy seller Gr0gimann, and I spotted them in her post at CRAFT.
Wireless technology has transformed many aspects of our world, but it wasn’t until now that it has had an impact on falling dominoes. In this project by Jarashi Suki and the IAMAS Ubiquitous Interaction Research Group, each electronic domino is assigned a number and after it topples, it will wirelessly trigger the next numbered domino […]
Via Peter Kirn’s Create Digital Motion comes this work from artist Mauritius Seeger, using a Kinect to “scratch” video using proximity info. Mauritius write: I use modul8 with a midi controller and have kind of given up on video scratching because it’s so bad in software when i last tried it ( with modul8) and […]
