The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
This cool shield hack for the Arduino controller called the “ArduinoBoy” lets you interface it to any MIDI input to trigger sounds on a standard Gameboy. To get started, just use an existing Arduino protoshield, and scrap the breadboard for some custom circuitry and components outlined at the link below. ArduinoBoy, via Create Digital Music
Nice pedal powered tank on Pop Sci! If you want to crash a local parade of human-powered vehicles and soak unsuspecting onlookers in water or vaporized hot dogs, a pink camouflage tank is a pretty good craft to do it in. At least that’s what 30-year-old Philadelphia gearhead Vin Marshall thought when he persuaded nine […]
Spotted on the Make: Flickr Pool, a walking seat built from a pair of bicycle handlebars and a bike seat. Paging Kevin Kelly. Homemade stool at Rathayatra
Here is the ultimate sports fan item, a portable Flashing LED Sign.To download Ultimate Fan Sign MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes.
If you are a sports fan, here is how to make the Ultimate LED Fan Sign! View the PDF
This is very interesting, Nintendo has a new DS coming out (the DSi) – has a camera, web browser and you can download games. This is a super powerful computer with a lot of add-ons, great for hacking, great for homebrew stuff and all likely pretty cheap. Look how many projects came out when the […]
Pandora, the open, highly hackable console is available for pre-order, looks pretty nice. Not open source hardware, but not too shabby! More @ wikipedia and their site… The Pandora system will have an open source, Linux-based OS. The Pandora is designed to be a handheld game console, with PDA capabilities. One of the main uses […]
