There is a large field of mustard a couple miles from MAKE headquarters, and for a few weeks in spring, all the mustard blooms, and the field turns brilliant yellow....
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Saturday April 27th, 2013 7:00 AM
Categories: Electronics, Fun & Games | 5 Comments
Complete instructions for this episode of Weekend Projects can be found at http://makeprojects.com/Project/Mini-Rover-Redux/2479/1 Learn the basics of modding a remote controlled (RC) vehicle for the purpose of making your own...
Posted by makemagazineuser | Friday December 21st, 2012 3:22 PM
Categories: Electronics, Fun & Games, Photography & Video | No Comments
This R/C watermelon boat would work better rigged up as trimaran, seeing as it "met with an untimely death after tipping over." But melon seaworthiness aside, this build would be...
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Tuesday December 18th, 2012 4:45 PM
Categories: Fun & Games | 4 Comments
The Maker Shed now has the ELEV-8 Quadcopter kit by Parallax! This kit takes a little skill to put together, but it's a fantastically fun build and even more fun...
Posted by Eric Weinhoffer | Tuesday October 30th, 2012 10:31 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, General | 3 Comments
Ready for some high-flying quadcopter action at Maker Faire New York? Parallax will be demoing their ELEV-8 quadcopters live on the Make: Demo Stage (in the Maker Shed) at 4pm...
Posted by Maker Shed | Thursday September 27th, 2012 8:00 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, General, Robotics | 2 Comments
From maker Blair Kelly: "Arduino Wifly Mini is a remotely operated vehicle that communicates over a WiFi network, can be controlled with an XBOX 360 or PS3 controller, or G27...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Wednesday May 9th, 2012 11:30 AM
Categories: Arduino, Fun & Games | 11 Comments
Check out this krispy stop-motion build of a SAB Goblin RC helicopter, along with some clips of some cool stunts, including upside down flying! [via Frankie]
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday March 27th, 2012 11:30 AM
Categories: Fun & Games | 4 Comments
Steve Lodefink sent me this amazing video of a guy flying his quadcopter around his neighborhood using a goggle vision system. He even flies it through his(?) house. What fun!
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder | Wednesday February 22nd, 2012 7:30 PM
Categories: Fun & Games | 12 Comments
Impressive Kinect-based gesture-controlled RC helicopter.
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Tuesday February 14th, 2012 4:00 PM
Categories: Fun & Games | 4 Comments
This video has been making the viral rounds today. It's a sneak preview and a draft promo video for a six-legged robotic toy in development at Wow! Stuff. And the...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Friday February 10th, 2012 4:30 PM
Categories: Fun & Games, General, Kids & Family, Robotics | 18 Comments
Wannes Vermeulen created an iPad app to control a modded RC car, complete with a remote point-of-view camera: I used two servo motors attached to the original remote control of...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Tuesday January 3rd, 2012 7:30 AM
Categories: Electronics, Fun & Games, Hacks | 1 Comment
Inspired in part by the Plantraco Nanoblimp, Instructables user masynmachien built this impressive 3-axis ultralight R/C blimp gondola. With an 11" latex balloon filled with helium, it will carry its...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday December 6th, 2011 1:00 PM
Categories: Fun & Games | 7 Comments
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