The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
This is a pretty amazing folding transformation of a 2-unit cube into a pair of stellated rhombic dodecahedra. You can buy the (fairly pricey) toy version pictured above from the Museum of Modern Art. It is also possible to make your own, from paper, by following the instructions in the video below. It is, reportedly, a very rewarding if time-consuming process. You can download the pattern here.
I love how this Mindstorms robot is able to emulate a real human gait rather than having the slow shuffle that most walking robots feature. Of course it is held up with strings, but it shows the potential of the (toy) technology. This video was created as part of our project in the Department of […]
Cory Doctorow has announced a new card game based on the cool illustrations that accompanied the serialized version of his novel Makers. Last year, my novel Makers was published and syndicated free as a series of 81 blog-posts on Tor.com. Tor had the insanely creative people at Idiots’ Books produce 81 interlocking, tesselating illustrations, one […]
A clever and inexpensive product from indie laser-cutter Evolution Laser Works.
Found in the MAKE Flickr Pool: This sweet bike, the work of Peter Wagner of Davis, CA, was built as an entry to a kinetic sculpture race. Between the big tires and the oar outriggers, the bike can actually go on water! The bars on the rear wheel in the 2nd picture provide traction for […]
I must have been sleeping at my keyboard, because I completely missed this 2003 documentary, Great Microbiologists.
Brian Dereu and his family have a thriving cottage industry machining these pocket concealments from real currency and selling them online. I have one of their MicroNickels, shown above, and it may well be the coolest thing I have ever owned. It’s sized perfectly to conceal a Micro SD card, and when assembled it really is indistinguishable from a regular nickel. So, you know, just don’t lose it.
