The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Mehmet “Memo” Akten‘s experiment shows the possibilities of the newly hacked gadget. The XBox Kinect is connected to my Macbook Pro, and I wrote a little demo to analyse the depth map for gestural 3D interaction. One hand to draw in 3D, two hands to rotate the view. Very rough, early prototype. [Kinect hacks, via […]
Some people aren’t content with your run-of-the-mill blinking lights. Take, for instance, this Arduino-powered Twitter Monkey from maker Pete Prodoehl. He could have had his script send out an audio alert like everyone else, instead he chose to create this animatronic monkey using an Arduino and a couple of servos. Every time it sees a keyword it goes bananas, flapping its arms about like any excited monkey would do. It may not be your cup of tea if your a nervous person, but it sure does beat your average blip.
Usually Lego is a hobby unto itself. But what I really like are projects where the Lego is the means, not the end, where the project succeeded because there was this neato prototyping material lying around. Here are some good one pulled from the cobweb-strewn archives of Make: Online. #10 Lego Letterpress #9 LEGO Swimming […]
By way of our favorite Pinball Wizard, Jeri Ellsworth, comes this fun little documentary about the Pacific Pinball Museum. We’ve been thrilled to host the Pacific Pinball Museum’s Lil’ Ju Ju mobile museum at the Bay Area Maker Faires. Lil’ Ju Ju is a modified a 1947 Spartan Manor Travel trailer housing six vintage pinball […]
Propel a ping pong ball from a simple-to-make pvc launcher.
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When I was a kid, I lived for model rocketry. I was the vice president of our town’s model rocketry club. I raked leaves, mowed lawns, babysat bratty kids, anything to save up enough scratch to order from the Estes or Centuri catalogs. I can still remember the supreme joy I would feel on the […]
OK, I’m a little crazy when it comes to decorating my kids’ rooms. I like the challenge of a theme — so far, I’ve redecorated rooms in Western, Spaceport, Octonauts, and Sporty Teen modes. If my husband would agree, I’d redo the master bedroom in a Robot theme, but so far he remains unconvinced. So […]
