The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Here’s an excellent walk through about how a pinball machine is made! – The following is an unabridged version of a short presentation that Pat Lawlor Design did at Pinball Expo 2001, showing the history of the MONOPOLY Pinball project from start to end. MONOPOLY Pinball was a special project in a lot of ways, […]
Lee writes in – NCSU College of Design is at World Children’s Festival at the National Mall in Washington DC this weekend (through Monday)… the Art+Design group is putting together flipbooks (custom Flash Applet) and digital comicbooks (Comiclife) for guests using real time color keying ala quasimondo.com. The Lego team is right next door to […]
There hasn’t been a lot to write about on the PSP homebrew and modding front for a bit, but this downgrader is pretty exciting. Now you can downgrade (which is like an upgrade) any PSP to play your own games and more… This downgrader is for v3.50 firmware, and includes a port of the Homebrew […]
ThinkGeek is now carrying the Hydra console game development kit, $199 – Remember the simpler computer days of yore when it was actually possible to hook your Commodore 64 to an old TV set and immerse yourself in coding? Now you can relive those memories by creating your own classic 8-Bit style games with the […]
Electric bike project from Bill, and his last name is Craft! Hi, my name is Bill Craft and I read your blog pretty much on a daily basis. It’s good to know that there’s so many people out there who are that creative. I live in a very small town in Alberta and I find […]
A maker sent in this rad carbon fiber Xbox 360 controller, but there isn’t any information on how it was made… That’s OK we have a great tutorial on this! – Link. From the pages of MAKE: Working with Carbon Fiber. Form, lay up, and cure your own high-performance composites. Read this article in MAKE: […]
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories writes – We have been using POV-Ray to create 3D models and render bitmap slices that can be printed with the CandyFab 4000, our home-built 3D sugar fabricator. One thing that we could do to extend the usefulness of this procedure is to be able to take STL files as input, […]
