The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Scott Beale, of Laughing Squid, points out that The Almost-Annual Matt Armbruster Memorial Big Wheel Rally is happening this Saturday (August 25th) in Boulder, CO. The event is a benefit for Saint Joseph Hospital Foundation. If you’re interested in participating, there’s still time to register. The Almost-Annual Matt Armbruster Memorial Big Wheel Rally – Link […]
Pekar sent in this collection of “Make-It-Yourself PONG systems” outstanding! – Link.
Tyler writes in – My blog is intended to eventually become a resource for amateur robotics (with personal reviews and links to great articles on the subject), but I’ve included an arcade project that I thought readers of Make might be interested in. I’ve built 7 MAME arcade cabinets from scratch, the story of the […]
Here’s a work-in-progress, from a guy who’s building a mini UAV, using a Blade CX2 R/C helicopter and the awesome Parallax Propeller Chip. He writes of the build: The CX2 controller has 4 potentiometers into which I spliced a breadboard. A Parallax Propeller (prop chip) is used to read the control stick voltages through a […]
Jason Scott posted a collection of 1,700 arcade manuals in PDF format, he writes – If you were saying to yourself “Now, where can I browse over 1,700 arcade manuals in PDF format?”, your prayers were just answered. This is over three gigabytes of manuals, schematics, and general information about arcade machines, scanned in by […]
Wired.com has a nice package of three articles covering action figure modding. “Action Figure Modders Aren’t Just Toying Around” introduces the concept of custom figures, “Zap! A Gallery of Customized Action Figures” shows off a bunch of builder mods, and in Wired’s How-To Wiki, “Make Your Own Action Figure” shows you how, or at least […]
Our buds over at Robot Magazine have an online exclusive, with lots of photos, of the forthcoming new VEX Robotics Design System, dubbed the Revell VEXPlorer. As you probably know, the VEX system, first sold by Radio Shack, was sold to Revell Monogram. The Robot mag piece has details about the content, pics of the […]
