Continuous rain “stick”
Made from a bicycle rim, a length of corrugated plastic hose, a bunch of BBs, and a cymbal stand by Instructables user rhoddity.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Back in stock: Video Game Shield
The open source, and now back in stock, Video Game Shield from the Maker Shed allows you to create your own games, graphics, text, sound effects, music, and more on an Arduino! Make awesome black-and-white video games that you can play on your TV! It supports up to two Nintendo Wii Nunchuck controllers for an […]
Game racing cockpit in an ottoman
I love this gaming cockpit that stows away in an ottoman, posted to an Australian overclocker’s forum. The builder writes: Wanted to make it fully adjustable for other people to be able to use, therefore the seat, gearstick and steering wheel all push forward and are locked down with wing nuts and pins. The dimensions […]
Lego frog dissection
By Dave Kaleta. Dissected frog in Lego. For the 2010 MOC Olympics.
November is Maker Hobbies month!
A FPV (First Person View) vision system installed in an R/C model plane Since we’re all a bunch of overgrown geeky kids here at MAKE, we’re thrilled to announce that November is Maker Hobbies month! We’re not tremendously comfortable with the idea of limiting what constitutes a “maker hobby,” since a maker can be anybody […]
Huge Lego Europe relief map with monuments
The Euromap project is the brainchild of Bruno Kurth and Tobias Reichling. Vanessa Graf, Tanja Kusserow-Kurth, and Torsten Scheer helped them actually build the thing. The map itself, without the monuments, uses 53,500 Lego elements, and is 12.5 ft (480 studs) on a side. [via Microbricks]
Burr puzzle cutlery
I like this concept design from German product designer Konstantin Slawinski that integrates the pieces of the classic three-piece “wooden knot” puzzle into a knife, a fork, and a spoon to make an interlocking set of cutlery. I don’t think there’s a deliberate nod to Bill Cutler (WOTD: “metagrobologist”) going on here, but I kinda wish there were. He calls it “Join.” [via Core77]