The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
This climbing wall / human size LED display called the “DigiGripper”, has a few tricks up its sleeve. If you hold onto an illuminated dot, the dot retreats into the wall causing you to fall on your butt. The longer you hold onto the display, the quicker the letters change and the person who holds […]
This modded Xbox driving controller uses duct -ape and elbow grease to integrate a chair into it’s design. Although it’s hard to know if you play this game seated with your feet controlling the steering wheel or uncomfortably perched on the back support for better alignment. [via]
These homebrew Wiimotes consist of an infrared LED from RadioShack, a 1.5v button battery, clothes pins, electrical tape, optional chopsticks for support, and a few more choice ingredients. Check out the below link for the full recipe. WiiMedia in $5 and 15 minutes, [via]
From Hack a Day: German engineering firm Festo has created this flying manta ray. Dubbed the Air_ray, it’s a balloon made of an aluminum-vaporised “PET foil”. Inflated with helium, the Air_ray’s propulsion system is a flapping wing drive. Each wing has alternating pressure and tension flanks that are attached to an internal set of ribs. […]
RobotsRule has a written and video review of WowWee’s forthcoming Wrex the Dawg, a sort of comic-relief robot that, as Robert puts it “is absolutely terrible at being a dog and even worse at being a robot.” WowWee Wrex The Dawg Review
This photo essay shows you step by step procedures for dismantling Hasbro’s R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid. Some pretty nice pictures of the surgery complete with details on how to avoid damaging the critical elements inside of the droid. Cracking Open Hasbro’s R2-D2 Interactive Astromech Droid
Check out this cool steampunk-ified three-wheel recumbent trike. Love the lantern headlights. Ladies And Gentlemen, I Present The Brass Lion! [Thanks, Jeff!]
