The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
The NXTblog is doing a look back at pre-NXT Mindstorm creations starting off with this one, a LEGO pinball machine – “Designed and built by Gerrit Bronsveld and Martijn Boogaarts, this fully functional pinball machine boasts a number of novel features, including a working coin slot (50 cent Euro coins only, please!), a functional tilt […]
Philo writes “When Bob Kojima announced his rolling ball clock on Lugnet a few months ago, I knew I had to build one someday… I bought a stock of balls on Bricklink, and here is the result. The main modification was the use of a RCX to obtain good long time stability – I finally […]
Using Google Earth and OGLE, 3D “prints” of buildings in NYC – “The 3D buildings OGLE’d from Google Earth are not ready to be 3D printed off the bat. Each building is a composition of multiple vertical volumes that have walls and a ceiling but no floor. By computationally (i.e. hacked up OBJ-file-processing perl script!) […]
Bay Area Makers, MAKE will be at this event, hopefully filming! – “Experience this quintessentially San Francisco art experience, an exciting and incendiary exhibition of innovative and inspiring fire art! Ranging in nature from meditative and quietly interactive to spectacular, high-tech and utterly indefinable – these featured works of art and choreographed fire performances are […]
Team Hassenplug made a connect four LEGO bot, it’s takes a very steady hand…! – “This is a robot that was designed and built to play Connect-Four in a contest against other robots, which it was lucky enough to win. During the event, it didn’t lose any games (once I remembered to plug the AC […]
To heck with HDTV, HDMI, Wii and all that jibber jabber – Brian shows you how to play retro games on the big screen on the cheap. Click here to get the video (MP4) delivered automatically with iTunes. This video will play on PC/Mac/Linux/PSPs and iPod video devices. Ingredients: Zoombox – Link. Dreamcast Emulation – […]
Greetings. The Master Control Program has chosen you to serve your system on the Game Grid. Those of you who continue to profess a belief in the Users will receive the standard substandard training, which will result in your eventual elimination. Those of you who renounce this superstitious and hysterical belief will be eligible to […]
