The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Everyone likes toys that fly. Unfortunately, most R/C planes are hard to control for people without any experience. Why not make an easy to fly blimp? It’s really quick to make, and many people have at least one of the R/C helicopters used in the build. Even if you had to buy (2) helicopters your […]
Never been able to realize your artistic vision on the old grey screen? Neil’s project may be of help – Anyone who has tried to use an Etch A Sketch knows that a good deal of co-ordination is needed in order to draw anything but horizontal and vertical lines. It quickly becomes obvious that a […]
The Passively Multiplayer Online Game, which has been in a closed beta since February, is launching an interactive tutorial for new users to coincide with the game’s appearance at Maker Faire. Members of the team, including game designer Merci Victoria Grace, will be hosting a PMOG salon where they plan to play board games and […]
A Guitar Hero-playing robot, with the awesome moniker “Slashbot,” created by four Texas A&M University undergrads. Slashbot: The Guitar Hero Robot [via]
Dug writes – The Sands Mechanical Museum has a section of their site called “Mechanisms Explained” in which they have documented, photographed, animated, and described how a variety of arcade machine mechanisms work. A great references source. Neat little animations reveal the seldom seen inner-works, interesting stuff – Sands Mechanical Museum [via Dug’s blog]
The mammoth two wheels of Unwheeldy will be rolling into Bay Area Maker Faire – In January of 2005, I began construction of a vehicle to enter into the World Championship Kinetic Sculpture Race from Arcata California to the nearby town of Ferndale. The race is held every Memorial Day, near the end of May. […]
A couple of my Make: DC and Dorkbot DC compatriots, Nick Farr, Adam Koeppel, and others, have created a hacker space in DC, in the spirit of other bricks and mortars sites like NYC Resistor and Philly’s The Hactory. HacDC is holding a pre-grand opening “Parts Party” this Sunday to start collecting techno-junk, equipment, parts, […]
