Casper’s bronze heart
Casper’s brother made him this totally sweet bronze sculpture using Styrofoam and a LEGO minifig. Via Brothers Brick
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Halloween LEGO minifig contest
Fine Clonier is hosting a Haunted Halloween Custom LEGO Minifig Contest – there’s still time to enter! Here are a few of the rules – complete information is here. (I hope somebody comes up with a scary princess) What is the contest,” you ask. Well it is simply building a Custom Scary Halloween figure out […]
Remote Impact – Shadowboxing over a distance
Remote Impact – Shadowboxing over a distance via Waxy. Remote Impact is a “Sports over a Distance” game that provides a full body contact experience between geographically distant players. The game encourages extreme physical exertion and, unlike the Nintendo Wii and other console games, it recognizes and registers intense brute force. The physical intensity of […]
How To: Build a 3D Lego Halloween Pumpkin
The folks over at Gizomodo have combined two of my favorite things, LEGOs and Halloween. This looks like a fun project to build, and it would make a perfect addition to anyone’s desk. How To Build a 3D Lego Halloween Pumpkin More: DIY Halloween contest! This is the BIG ONE!!!!
ds brut – open hardware prototyping platform for the Nintendo DS
Gottfried writes in about the DS brut – Hi there, at the beginning of this year, Gordan Savicic (who did the infamous “contraint city” wifi-nds-corset project, featured on MAKE blog, WMMNA and others) and myself desperately needed an I/O card for the Nintendo DS for a project of ours. So we set out to build […]
Electric Tall Bike
Spotted at Maker Faire, Peter Stanley’s electric tall bike may be my favorite vehicle of any kind: You can’t tell from the video that there’s no throttle: just an on-off switch. Because adding a motor to a tallbike wasn’t dangerous enough;)
Mega Man costume looks powerful!
Kevin’s kid-sized Mega Man costume in-progress is looking impressive – in particular, the megabuster/gun light effects. – The Mega Buster was another important part of the costume… I could have just done two gloves, but that would have been lame. Anyways, I liked Mr Wilsons idea of using tupperware for the construction, I just decided […]
