The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Hardware hacker extraordinaire Ben Heckendorn (a.k.a. Ben Heck) is using the guts of an Xbox 360 Elite for his next project, a 360 laptop. In preparation for this, he cracked one open, did some creative deconstruction, and has documented the results in two articles. Inside the Xbox 360 Elite – Link More about the Xbox […]
This video shows you how to shave a deck of cards so that you can perform many common card tricks. Make a “Magic” Deck of Playing Cards – Link
In honor of LEGO’s 75th anniversary, DIY Life has put together a list of 23 of their favorite LEGO projects online (many of which we’ve already covered here). The one seen above is an amazing, working Guitar Hero game controller modeled after the Gibson Explorer. LEGO’s 75th anniversary: 23 DIY LEGO ideas – Link Related: […]
Biotele writes – This instructable introduces the venerable Spy Ear in details and my way to reverse engineer a circuit. Why does this device deserves its own instructable?: You can buy a Spy Ear for a dollar! It can amplify sounds up to 60 dB or a factor of a 100. It has a self […]
This attractive cup-perched craft project is actually a working papercraft model of a Stirling engine being sold by a Germany science novelty catalog. Sitting on your tea or coffee cup, the heat (or cold) from within will power the engine for up to an hour. The kit costs EUR21.90 (around US$30). The Stirling engine kit […]
Kevin Kelly’s Street Use has these (and other) pics of motorcycles and bikes, used in the Dong Dae Mun Market of Seoul, to circulate heavy loads around town. Says the photographer: These bikes are the grease that make the market smooth, you see them ferrying ridiculously big loads for 500 metres or so to where […]
Happy 75th birthday LEGO! – Parties were due to take place around the world Friday for Danish toy firm Lego as its 5,000 global employees prepared to celebrate the company’s 75th birthday. Master carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen started the company on August 10, 1932 in his studio in the town of Billund in Jutland. The […]
