The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
@NYC Toy Fair 2009 – The Unitech “Fun Fly Stick” Magic levitation wand made the rounds on the web awhile ago but this is the first time I’ve seen it in person. It looks like some type of after dinner game Superman’s Dad keeps around for entertainment – seeing adults in suits play with this […]
@NYC Toy Fair 2009 – The “Erector” brand is still around, but sadly it’s in name only (they sell robot iPod docks now, I’m not kidding). I’ll have a post with those robots later today but we did discover the idea of the “Erector” set is back and it’s coming from a German company called […]
@NYC Toy Fair 2009 – Junior Tradesman, I like these – sure they’re a bucket of tiny clay bricks but that’s the point. Kids learn how to make brick structures use “brick mix” to keep them together, besides inspiring kids for an important skill these would be fun for art projects for adults too. It […]
Over the next day we’ll have all of our coverage from the NYC Toy Fair 2009 (MAKE style) – if you want to skip ahead and view the photo and videos here’s where to get’em… above a slide show.
MAKE is @ The NYC Toy Fair 2009 – thousands of toy makers come here each year to show off their latest – our lens on this show is a lot different than any coverage you’ll see anywhere else – stay tuned for posts, images and videos of unique MAKE-style products. DIY kits, science kits, […]
Flexagons are neat little paper models that can be folded in different ways to show different surfaces. There are dozens of different types, and this site gives a good overview & patterns. So, besides a fun plaything, what else can you do with it? You can take a regular flat maze and draw it on […]
Nitro writes – A fairly in-depth technical report by the security researchers at TippingPoint was released on how to reverse engineer the proprietary protocol for controlling a USB missile-launching toy system. They develop an iPhone application to control the device. ‘The hardware is coupled with a simple GUI controller written in Delphi (MissileLauncher.exe) and a […]
