The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Here’s an interesting vid of a close-up/card magician using augmented reality with his card tricks. Marco Tempest From the Maker Shed: MAKE, Volume 13 Our Price: $14.99 MAKE, Volume 13 is our magic issue, loaded with enough tricks to keep your friends and family entertained and mystified for months. Telekinetic pens! Levitating heads! Ghostly blocks! […]
TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball from the Maker Shed is on sale now as part of our Spring-cleaning sale. It’s a really interesting 2-DVD set that includes seven hours of extras, including interviews with industry greats and a pinball factory tour. One of the great maker tales of the game industry. In 1998, Williams […]
Joe Bowers sends this in: I set up an Arduino to read the notes on Guitar Hero and flash an LED to that corresponding note. I used this ambient light sensor, from Sparkfun to read the changes in value on the screen. When something bright flashes in front of it, the Arduino will turn on […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Dot wrote up a nice how-to explaining how to build a sturdy launcher for HotWheels/Matchbox sized cars – Ever wanted your toy cars to really go? Wanna new way to race? Want an excuse to build something really cool for your kid? Or do a fun project WITH your kid? […]
This article and video describe how to control a Pleo with a Nintendo Wii nunchuck and XBee modules. How to control Pleo wirelessly using Wii nunchuck
Dino Segovis, of DinoFab.com, shows you how easy it is to turn a RumbleBot robot toy (available for $5-20 on eBay) into an Arduino-controlled robot, which opens up all sorts of possibilities. Rumble Robot Arduino Hack
Make a varmint detecting webcam that captures rascally rabbits in your backyard. Thanks go to Bob Goldstein for the original article in MAKE, Volume 17. To download The Animal Detector MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Animal Detector article in MAKE, Volume 17 “Animal Detector” and you can see that […]
