Lego Letterpress
Over at CRAFT, Rachel Hobson spotted this most excellent LEGO letterpress device, by Justin LaRosa and Samuel Cox.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Electronic component nesting dolls
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, this cool set of five hand-painted Matryoshka dolls from user funnypolynomial. The tiny solder blob goes inside the diode goes inside the LED goes inside the resistor goes inside the capacitor.
Official LEGO NXT Android control app
Hobbyists looking for an official LEGO app to control their project are in luck. LEGO just announced their official NXT control app for the Android operating system. Called MINDroid, the app is available from the Android Market and will allow you to communicate with your creation over BlueTooth from your Android handset.
4th Annual Mochimochi Photo Contest 2010
Get your needles and camera ready as the 4th Annual Mochimochi Photo Contest starts now and runs through November 15th. They’re looking for the cutest, most interesting photos of Mochimochi Land toys. Just upload your photo(s) to the Mochimochi Friends Flickr group before the deadline. More info and contest rules are on the Mochimochi blog.
Twisting puzzles designed, built by my 15-year-old neighbor
Bumped into one of my new neighbors at the mailbox last week, and when I mentioned that I work for MAKE, she mentioned that her teenage son builds puzzles. Mechanical puzzles. Complicated ones. Turns out, he doesn’t just build them–he designs original configurations and sells them online. He’s got a following.
Lego Technic camera dollies
AFOL Peer Kreuger‘s fascinating Power Functions-enhanced “camera vehicles” are used as mini dollies to record videos of his Lego creations. UPDATE: Here are two videos of the result. Nicely done!
distellamap: Modern Visualizations of Atari 2600 code
Software is a mix of computer instructions and data, but rarely do you get to see how the two interact in memory. Ben Fry visualized the code of several classic video games, giving insight in to the complexity of the code and how the programmer arranged the graphical elements. It’s also amazing how little was […]
