The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
This cool mod is a home brew treadmill connected up to the popular game, “World of Warcraft” so that you can move your characters around the world by actually “running” in place on the device. We’ve seen this before with a few other treadmill mods, but this one wins props for the best costumes and […]
Crazed LEGO fan Chris Doyle has done an awesome job in creating this custom Nite Owl Owlship from the Watchmen comic (and upcoming film). I love how some builders go so far as to mock up packaging. Now that’s dedication. The Watchmen: Nite-Owl’s Owlship
Big-X made a wonderful model of the Ohmu from Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. He has some other incredible models in his Brickshelf gallery, too.
MAKE’s favorite puzzles.
What started as a hobby has turned into much more — I’ve spent more time with my kids, become more active, and even launched a small side business.
Ladyada writes on ladyada’s ranting: The UzeBox the coolest thing I’ve seen in a really really long time, a full tile-based gaming system built on a Atmega644 + AD725 (which does all the nasty colorburst stuff). Ive spent some time with the AD725 but at the time I was using an Atmega16 and didn’t get […]
“Tilty Snake” employs the Monome 64’s accelerometer to create a novel interface for the old school video game of snake. The result is a really nice and intutive controller for the classic game as can be seen from the above video.
