The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
If you want to fly your R/C plane at night, you are going to need lights. Lots of lights! This is a really simple and inexpensive way to add a lot of light to your R/C plane. Now all you have to do is wait for the sun to go down and try it out. […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Funnypolynomial used a discarded laptop to create this excellent remake – I rescued an old Thinkpad ages ago and began a project to install it in a picture frame. The original idea was to have it running things like Conway’s Life and the Mandelbrot set. But then I saw […]
Rob sent us a link to his website where he has a nice DIY front mounted bicycle rack. Apparently he isn’t able to mount a traditional rack on his bike, so he modified one to work on the front. [Thanks Rob] More about making a DIY Front Wheel Bike Rack
You can now change the subject in the Free Rice game – you can identify art, learn languages, be quizzed on the multiplication table, and identify chemical symbols.
Via Yellow Bike Project: The International Bicycle Film Fest is finally making it to Austin, September 19 and 20. There will be four screenings of different collections of bike themed cinema (including Tandemonium, a short directed by YBP’s Nathan Wilkes), all showing at Studio 501, on the corner of E. 5th and Brushy Street. Tickets […]
Who says Italian bikes are just ridiculously expensive? Now they’re ridiculously expensive and funky art: Mellow Johnny’s, named for the nickname of a certain Tour-de-France-winning Austinite who invested in this place, also has a dollar-a-day commuter station; you can learn more about that here. Hope to see you there!
Inspired by the death of his grandfather, LEGO builder Shannon Ocean created this thoughtful and somewhat disturbing piece called “Letting go“. via The Brothers Brick
