The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
I really like these colorful Japanese paper robot models. If you click on the underlined text next to the images on the site, you’ll see larger images and (with more clicking!) get to downloadable PDFs. These would go great with a gift subscription to Make! Paper Robots
Guy Vardi writes in: The clock is build out of bicycle parts. One of the design principles was to use only used elements. Edison once said that to invent you need good imagination and a pile of junk. The designers took his advice seriously. The Bike clock was build by Yedidya Vardi and Vladimir Zviagintsev […]
Todd Lappin, MAKE contributor and current guest blogger on Dinosaurs and Robots, has a strange collection compulsion that I don’t share, but I can totally understand. He has a control panel fetish. Hey, now. Don’t judge. Everybody is wired differently. Todd just happens to be wired to toggle switches, panel lights, and needle gauges. And […]
Instructables user engineerable hacked a couple of bike lights to embed in his backpack, and he documented the process in an instructable so you can see how to make your own bike light backpack. Related: Bikes @ MAKE Turn signal bike jacket
Two German engineers have turned the Wii Balance Board into a computer input device for doing such things as flying over Google Earth and controlling avatars in Second Life. Fly in Google Earth using the Wii Balance Board [via]
MAKE’s favorite puzzles.
Awesome 35lb LEGO Heart @ Street Anatomy by Nathan Sawaya’s called “Heartfelt” via Book of Joe. Nathan writes- I created an anatomically correct human heart for the Rady Children’s Hospital of San Diego. A piece like this is a great tool to help doctors talk to young patients about their own hearts. Hopefully kids will […]
