The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
The “Double Down” card dealer is a fully programmable automated card dealer that just like a real-life human dealer, will make sure nobody is cheating at your table. It has the ability to deal a card in two directions (left or right, dealer or player, etc) while at the same time moving linearly perpendicular to […]
Treehugger has put together a fun roundup of bikes with reel mowers bolted onto the fronts of them. Not sure how effective this is as a mower, or rideable as a bike — this might be more Chindogu than workable hack. Has anyone made and/or ridden one of these? The Cutting Edge: Bicycle Lawnmowing – […]
MAKE pal Steve Lodefink posted the details on a couple of kid parties he’s thrown centered on building and flying soda bottle rockets. When my son was little, he really wanted to have an Estes rocket party, but we thought it was probably too dangerous for 6-7 year old kids (even with close supervision). Doing […]
BattleBricks show you how to make your own “RoboFlusher” – Tired of flushing your own toilet? Build a RoboFlush! RoboFlush is a simple Lego NXT Mindstorms Robot designed to flush a toilet automatically. It also comes with a manual flush option! Check out these instructions to build your own. Mike D’Amour came up with the […]
By way of the awesome AfriGadget site comes this Wired story about a paraglider builder/flier from South Africa: Cyril is the only black South African currently registered with the sport’s ruling body. And it all started with a glider he made from plastic bags, purloined rope and baling wire, a glider that flew — sort […]
Video of cool of German-made four-prop micro-drones with such features as hand-motion control, GSM networked communications (swarms!), GPS mapping, mounted cameras, and more. MicoDrone – Link
Robots Dreams (by way of Waziwazi) has posted new videos of the forthcoming Tomy i-Sobot, a very nimble and sophisticated mini-humanoid (especially given its $299 pricetag). Can’t wait for this thing to come out to see about its hacks potential. The i-Sobot is available for pre-order on Amazon (and elsewhere) and is supposed to “in […]
