The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Here’s a fun combination of Wiimote, Flash, and a bit of physical computing, all cobbled together to make a little car that you can drive around the office Mario Kart style. There isn’t a whole lot of information available on this besides the video captions, but it appears to be using the WiiFlash Flash API […]
MAKE reader Mike points us to this Inhabitots article about Avik Maitra, a Columbia University graduate doing a research fellowship in Malawi. Malawi kids have been making some very cool toys out of found items; Avik is working on designing more toys that the children can make out of local materials and factory byproducts – […]
Although this is a DIY Pizza Rack designed for an Xtracycle, I am sure it can be adapted to fit other bikes. The main parts of the rack can be found at Ikea and the total cost is about $30. This could be really handy for anyone who wants to carry larger “things” on their […]
In December, I finally jettisoned the skis I got when I was a nanny/construction worker for the year after college. Michael needed them to turn into a Kite Buggy. Right now it is operating successfully as a sled/buggy, but the kite is already functioning. Finally able to get your skis to work! Next iteration will […]
Rafael Mizrahi sent in a link to his Real Virtual Skater project, a real skateboard turned game controller for use with Tony Hawk Pro Skater. The deck uses a Wiimote to capture accelerometer data and send it over Bluetooth to software on the PC. This software then sends emulated keystrokes to the game in response […]
Q4 Technologies, Ltd is a UK company that makes a line of software to control the WowWee toy/hobby robots. Anyone who’s spent any time using a WowWee controller to remote-control or script program routines for their bot knows how tedious, and limiting, this method can be. Go-Robo Studio works with most of the WowWee Robotics […]
We’ve gotten some of the packaged marble roll games that go on the fridge and they’ve been kind of disappointing. I really like this set that you can make yourself with plumbing pipe – Jack McKee’s site has lots of other cool stuff for kids, too!
