How-To: Paint a Space Marine Terminator
Great tutorial by Ron of From the Warp. Almost great enough to start me down the WH40K rabbit-hole again. Must…resist… [via toycutter]
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Make a Soda Bottle Bike Exhaust
My son has this totally awesome “exhaust” pipe on his bike that I covet. It’s really a resonator for the classic baseball-card-in-the-spokes trick. It makes a terrific racket, and gets people to move out of the way without necessitating a honk on your horn. I decided to build my own, using a recycled beverage bottle. Armed with a Dremel Rotary Tool, a bottle of energy drink, and a depleted gift card, I set out to make my own soda bottle bike exhaust.
Atomic Age tiki time on the model railroad
By way of Dinosaurs and Robots comes this awesome prototype of a soon-to-be HO-scale model kit of a 1960 tiki-fied SoCal bowling alley, cocktail lounge, and coffee shop. Swanky! The designer, Mike Cozart, also has plans for a department store, car dealership, movie house, and shopping center done in classic Atomic Age designs. Mike Cozart […]
Tony Hawk’s V8 Skateboard packs 630 horsepower
Why not strap a monster crate motor onto a custom skateboard frame? If you did, would it be the fastest? That’s debatable. I say that the engine would tear the frame up and throw the rider before it could gain significant speed. Some would say that you don’t even need an engine to go fast on a skateboard. That didn’t stop the folks at V8 Supercars from Sydney, Australia from building their monster 630hp V8 Skateboard.
Kinect-powered autonomous quadrotor
Man, and I thought the hacks on the Wii sensor bar came fast and furious. Amazing what people are doing with the Xbox Kinect and how viral all of these hacks quickly become. This one, an autonomous quadrotor, uses the Kinect Sensor for navigation and obstacle avoidance. It was done as part of the STARMAC […]
How-To: Make Any Doll Poseable
Instructables user j_l_larson writes: I have noticed a strange inequity between the poseability of girls and boys dolls. Most of the female dolls have stiff arms and legs which permit them to do little more than model clothing. To rectify this, I will attempt to turn a very cheap Dollar Tree girls ttoy doll into […]
CRAFT Pattern: Crochet Tiger Kitty
By Kristin Roach Aww… so sweet when this little tiger kitty is sleeping, you better hope to never meet him awake. Don’t let that sweet sleepy face surprise you; he’s the fiercest little tiger I know. Materials 10g – Fingering Weight Yarn, Color A 10g – Fingering Weight Yarn, Color B 10g – Fingering Weight […]
