Lego bone dragon
From Flickr user necromancer7. [via The Brothers Brick]
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Full MIDI drumset with Guitar Hero and Rock Band drums
A demo on how to create an 11-piece MIDI drum kit using Rock Band and Guitar Hero drum sets together. It includes velocity-sensitive triggers and a high-hat open/close pedal. Create a full MIDI Drumset with Guitar Hero and Rock Band Drums
What families call LEGO
Giles Turnbull @ The Morning News has a fun article about the family Nomenclature for LEGO… He writes – It’s a scene that is replayed by kids and parents everywhere. And it’s the starting point for a unique quirk of language: Lego nomenclature. Every family, it seems, has its own set of words for describing […]
Eight-way toss-and-catch kinetic sculpture
With 8 synchronized catapults, 160 plastic balls per minute are launched, caught, and recirculated. Made mostly of wood, the work is ~36 inches in diameter. On permanent display in the lobby of Lower Merion Elementary School, Merion Station, PA.
Really narrow car
Look, Ma, it’s a motorcycle with four wheels. Not a bike but, um… a “quike,” maybe?
The ‘bike tree’, an automatic storage system for cycles, can hold up to 6,000 bikes
The ‘bike tree’, an automatic storage system for cycles, can hold up to 6,000 bikes… watch the video!. David Munk @ THe Guardian.co.uk writes– It’s not often something stops you in your bike tracks. But a spectacular “bike tree” invention from Japan bowled me over when I was in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago. […]
Claim virtual turf with real-life balls
Want to claim your city as your own? Are you competing with a rival gang for turf, and want to avoid messy knife fights? Well now you can, thanks to Urban Defender.