The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Introducing: The N-Prize. The what? “The N-Prize is a challenge to launch an impossibly small satellite into orbit on a ludicrously small budget, for a pitifully small cash prize.” First proposed on Halfbakery, the site for cooking up crazy ideas, the N-Prize has now become a serious endeavor. The prize, of £9,999.99 sterling cash, will […]
I caught this photo of a rocking bike, taken by Flickr user PavelM, over on Bike Hacks. It appears to be from last year’s design event in Prague called Designblok. This is so much more relevant than a rocking horse, and I’d be in my garage making one for my kids if I knew how […]
NES emulator hacker Xkeeper has been working on a Lua script that allows you to manipulate Super Mario Bros. game objects right in the middle of game play: FCEUX is a NES emulator. It has Lua scripting support, and in the latest versions, a feature that allows you to grab input from the mouse and […]
Sean Ragan writes: A few times in my experiments with creative reuse I’ve had some very satisfying Aha! moments. One was my finding, back in 2004, that this flexible blue plastic conduit (or “ENT” = Electrical Nonmetallic Tubing), which I find very beautiful, fits perfectly into 3/4″ PVC pipe fittings. Using only conduit, 3/4″ PVC […]
Want to make music but find yourself more comfortable with a gaming controller than say a traditional MIDI controller – worry no more. Captain Dan demonstrates a little bit of what can be accomplished using an Xbox360 controller, GlovePIE input routing software, and Reaktor synth. Of course you don’t have to use a high-end suite […]
Here is a variation on the Menocino Motor project. The Mendo Motor is a solar-powered magnetically levitating motor invented by super maker Larry Spring, of Mendocino California. This is a great project to do with high school kids. The Motor incorporates woodworking, electricity, magnestism, troubleshooting, and can also be used as a way of teaching […]
Well Happy Pi Day to you! This little video came to me a few years ago via two alumni of my high school technology and engineering program. Math geekery made fun! The Math Forum at Drexel has some good Pi Day activities. if you are looking for some classroom resources for Pi Day, you might […]
