Playaflies (PDF how-to)
Remember the Playaflies? Here’s a PDF on how to make your own! – Link.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Bike tube rubber bands
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have a one minute project, bike tube rubber bands – Link. Related: Bicycle dual inner tube system – Link. HOW TO – Bicycle Frame Protection – Link. Inner tube chair seat caning – Link. HOW TO – Make an inner-tube wallet – Link. Life belt from old inner tubes – Link.
Dungeons of Doom by Greg Sanders
Julian writes – Coolest Altoids/Tin mod I’ve seen. This guy (Greg Sanders) made a portable game box that plays a rogue like game. He uses a Genesis controller to control the actual game, but I’d bet with a little work the entire unit could be entirely self-contained (by using a tipping-disk for directional control and […]
sketchyphysics – Sketchup
SketchyPhysics is a plugin for Sketchup – It combines a simple and easy to use interface with the power of a fast and accurate physics library, thanks Noah – Link.
HOW TO – Make a DIY PS2 Guitar Hero controller
Teebee918 writes – So this is my second instructable, thanx for clicking on it! It is not fully true what the title claims, you do need some materials of course (in fact a lot), I just wanted to emphasize that I had no guitar or anything at the beginning, so it’s not a “how to […]
Giant Labyrinth game for sale
Dave writes – Last year, I and five friends created this scale version of the popular Brio Labyrinth game for Holocene’s Annual Mini Golf Invitational, where artists are asked to create original mini-golf holes. Labyrinth: The Mini-golf Version is just like Labyrinth: the Original Laptop Game, except played with a golf ball instead of a […]
Wiimote as car accelerometer
This fairly simple hack uses a Nintendo Wii remote to capture G-force readings in a car, dump it to a CSV (Comma-Separated Values) text file, and then graph it via Excel. The results aren’t the most precise, but apparently good enough to give you some useful feedback on car mods. Wii Remote Measurements [via] – […]
