The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Anders Søborg built an amazing scanner that can use either the light sensor that comes with the NXT or a HiTechnic color sensor. Each line of the image is created by moving the sensor over the image at a constant speed while recording the position and corresponding sensor values with a fixed sample rate. The […]
Curiousinventor wrote a nice technical guide to working with ps2 controllers – Despite the large number of guides already out there that describe how to communicate with a play station controller (or guitar hero), most do not cover all the details, or do so sparsely. We consolidated and tested all the info we could find […]
Who doesn’t want/need a “Flux Capacitor” for their time machine? Here’s how to build one. DIY Flux Capacitor
Flickr user Balakov recreated some famous photographs in Lego . The reinvisioned images cast a strangely cute tone over some historical moments – Classics in Lego
Jan Vormann fills cracks in walls with Legos in Italy. I think the visual effect is really stunning. Via Wooster Collective.
Lovely bicycle that blows bubbles as you pedal via Guy. The Bloom device is meant to be a subversive and inspirational tool for our concrete jungles. Similar to the tuft of a dandelion as the wind carries the seedling, we propose a way of dispersing seedlings with bubbles and bicycling. Seeds are co-mingled with a […]
Instructable for making an Iron Man “Arc Reactor” and a glowing Iron Man mask. How to make an Iron Man Arc Reactor Iron Man Mask And here’s a full-blown Iron Man Helmet: Iron Man Helmet
