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October 23, 2009
Lego foosball!
Stretta managed to build a fully functional (and apparently quite fun) foosball table from LEGO parts -
My son is really attracted to foosball tables, and, if I'm honest, I'd have to say I am too. I considered the idea of buying a small, tabletop unit, but I was unsure how much use it'd see. I was afraid it might become one of those things you play with for a bit, then collect dust. Once again, I see a solution in the form of Lego.
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I personally prefer the design and building stage, and my son enjoyed that too, but he REALLY enjoys playing with it and now insists we play a couple matches every night.
Seems he's not exxaggerating about that urge to solve problems with plastic bricks. See exhibit A: When a new synth module didn't quite fit rackmount specs, Lego made it all better -
Yaknow, that actually makes for a pretty nice aesthetic!
Posted by Collin Cunningham | Oct 23, 2009 04:00 AMLEGO, Toys and Games | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email Entry | Suggest a Site
October 21, 2009
Lego model of industrial pallet handler
OK, Jay, this clip takes a bit of set-up. Basically, it's a model of a factory-floor machine for moving pallets around a square assembly line. You put a pushing arm at each corner of the square and trigger them alternately in caddy-corner pairs. Some bright bulb figured out, however, that if you join two square tracks at one corner, you can do twice the work with only two more arms. Watch the intersection for a minute to confirm that the contents of the two square tracks are not mixed, which to me is counterintuitive. Here's a video of the simple, single-square case that apparently started the trend. [via The Automata / Automaton Blog]
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Oct 21, 2009 12:05 PM
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October 20, 2009
iPod-controlled RC car
More Dorkbot Austin goodness! John Boiles demonstrated this radio-controlled car steered using his iPod's built-in accelerometer via its built-in WiFi transmitter. All you have to do is tilt the iPod, and the car goes. It starts to move around 1:10.
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Oct 20, 2009 09:00 AM
Electronics, hacks, iPhone, iPod, Toys and Games, Wireless |
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October 19, 2009
Bubble fogger with black light bubble liquid
More awesomeness from Terra of Halloween Forum. The UV-reactive bubble juice is from Tekno Bubbles.
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Make: Halloween Contest 2009
Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan |
Oct 19, 2009 07:00 PM
Chemistry, Halloween, Toys and Games |
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Autobots invade Cleveland yard for Halloween
Pretty amazing yard art by YouTuber koUNit1. [via Geekologie]
Make: Halloween Contest 2009
Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan |
Oct 19, 2009 07:37 AM
Crafts, Halloween, Made On Earth, Toys and Games, Transportation |
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October 16, 2009
Exoskeleton costume
Mario Caicedo Langer just posted a bunch of pics to the Make: Flickr Pool showing off his "Battlizer."
Make: Halloween Contest 2009
Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan |
Oct 16, 2009 08:30 AM
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October 13, 2009
Sweet kid's robot costume
Here's your unicorn chaser for Sunday's exploded corpse made of construction paper. Reader Mike Wakefield made this robot costume for his son, Arlen. It has batteries and blinky lights! Beep boop beep!
Make: Halloween Contest 2009
Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan |
Oct 13, 2009 03:00 AM
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October 10, 2009
Stone Golem costume
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It's old news, but this awesome foam Golem suit from live-action role-players in New Zealand just caught my eye.
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Oct 10, 2009 08:30 AM
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October 8, 2009
Chillingworth the owl
I sent this link over to Becky for the CRAFT blog but I got jealous after she put it up and had to post it here, too. Chillingworth may be the coolest stuffed animal I have ever seen. He was made from an antique bodice by Ann Wood of Brooklyn.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan |
Oct 8, 2009 03:00 AM
Crafts, Halloween, Retro, Toys and Games |
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October 6, 2009
How-To: "Operation" costume
You know, you kind of have to see it blown up to life-size before you realize just how creepy the "Operation" game really is. Outstanding costume build by Instructables user NavySWO91. It works just like the game!
Make: Halloween Contest 2009
Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan |
Oct 6, 2009 11:51 AM
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October 5, 2009
Wooden hand crank iPhone dock automata
This wooden hand crank iPhone dock automata by Murtaza Lakdawala is equal parts form and function. Turn the crank and watch the gears mesh as the automata changes the iPhone's orientation from portrait to landscape.
[via Gizmodo]
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Oct 5, 2009 02:00 AM
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October 4, 2009
Hinged square-to-triangle dissection table
Those of you who appreciated my earlier post about Dudeney's dissection will likely enjoy this table, commissioned by Joop Van Der Vaart from craftsman Jan de Koning, at Professor Greg N. Frederickson's page at Purdue.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan |
Oct 4, 2009 07:00 PM
Furniture, Science, Toys and Games |
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October 2, 2009
OMG Zelda prop sword
It's made from reinforced resin and finished with automotive paints by Aaron of Fiberglassblades. That's him in the Ryo Sanada getup below. Holy crap.
Make: Halloween Contest 2009
Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan |
Oct 2, 2009 03:00 AM
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September 30, 2009
Skateboard Tetris
True that San Francisco skaters have a reputation that precedes them with their home turf being some of the gnarliest steep urban streets in the country. Check out these 36 SF skaters on Freebords flexing mad skills with neon Tetris-like shapes mounted on their heads to awesome effect.
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Sep 30, 2009 11:30 AM
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September 29, 2009
Crawling wooden automaton
A newly posted work from Japanese kinetic sculptor Osamu Kanda, whose elegant praying mantis automaton I blogged two weeks ago. This one is called Crawl. [via The Automata / Automaton Blog]
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan |
Sep 29, 2009 02:00 PM
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Genre-fiction generator
Dave Malki, who does the awesome Victorian-era webcomic Wondermark, has created a hysterical steampunky genre-fiction generator.
Liam Cooke created an automated version of the chart. Here's the story synopsis I got:
The Psychopunks
In a metaphorical Outer Rim world, a young milquetoast office drone stumbles across a time-traveling soldier which spurs him into conflict with supernatural monsters, with the help of a tomboyish female mechanic and her welding gear, culminating in a daring rescue preceding a giant explosion.
[Thanks, Jonathan Johns!]
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Sep 29, 2009 12:01 PM
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Buy wholesale Cthulhu and save
I just checked the freezer and discovered I was down to my last bag. Don't let Halloween sneak up on you without stocking up.
Make: Halloween Contest 2009
Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan |
Sep 29, 2009 12:00 PM
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September 27, 2009
How-To: Cast cheap foam skulls
There's Jake, there's Elwood, and there's Dr. Kreepy. In this video he shows you how to cast cheap prop skulls by blowing canned expanding foam from the hardware store into a blow-molded plastic master. Good stuff. Wear work clothes!
Make: Halloween Contest 2009
Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan |
Sep 27, 2009 12:30 PM
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September 25, 2009
Eat my arm. Gain my power.
I'm expecting a lot of prawn-armed Wikuses (Wiki?) this year, but the award goes to YouTuber GrafixFan for producing the first bloggable District-9-related Halloween costume images I've seen. We must harvest his tissues immediately.
Make: Halloween Contest 2009
Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan |
Sep 25, 2009 09:00 AM
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September 24, 2009
Post-apocalyptic pneumatic werewolf
I have to say that of all the improbable phrases I've run across blogging, "post-apocalyptic pneumatic werewolf" may well be the the weirdest. Which only makes this haunted house prop by Terra of HalloweenForum.com (her tagline: "Terror of the Cul de Sac") just that much more, well, wicked, than it already is.
(Sorry.)
Make: Halloween Contest 2009
Microchip Technology Inc. and MAKE have teamed up to present to you the Make: Halloween Contest 2009! Show us your embedded microcontroller Halloween projects and you could be chosen as a winner.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan |
Sep 24, 2009 12:00 PM
Halloween, Robotics, Toys and Games |
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