Sometimes you need a little magic in your life, and that is what Kate Benbow created when she made this tiny fairy doors appear in her home. I saw this...
Posted by Meg Allan Cole | Thursday November 15th, 2012 3:00 PM
Categories: Craft, Fun & Games, Home, Kids & Family | 1 Comment
Make this simple Fast Toy Wood Car for a fun DIY holiday gift.
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Wednesday November 14th, 2012 10:00 AM
Categories: Fun & Games | 3 Comments
Down a dusty road in the eggs-and-butter town of Petaluma, Calif., sits a big, handmade pink Victorian complete with chicken coop, storage containers, vintage cars, and Shawn Thorsson’s badass workshop,...
Posted by Goli Mohammadi | Wednesday October 24th, 2012 7:01 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Fun & Games, Makers | 1 Comment
If you're a maker and a parent, you probably let your kids take things apart. According to Toys For Bob's lead engineer, Robert Leyland, developer of the Skylanders Portal of...
Posted by Blake Maloof | Thursday October 18th, 2012 9:09 PM
Categories: Fun & Games | No Comments
Hundreds of finished toys and prototypes are scattered throughout Scott's two-floor studio, Anaglyph Sculptures. They represent decades of sculpting and toy model making.
Posted by Jason Babler | Wednesday October 17th, 2012 5:25 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Fun & Games | 1 Comment
The classic game of thumb war meets rock-em-sock-em-robots—if the robots in question are 30 feet tall and have hands the size of engine blocks. Thumby Wars, as it’s known, was...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Saturday September 29th, 2012 3:33 PM
Categories: Fun & Games | 4 Comments
Tangible Lights is a childrens' building set made from cylindrical pieces that light up and change colors when you stack them together. Each block is embedded with an LED powered...
Posted by Michael Colombo | Thursday September 27th, 2012 12:00 PM
Categories: Education, Fun & Games, Kids & Family | No Comments
Amazing. This is Clockwork, my fifth major K’nex ball machine, and my largest and most complex K’nex structure to date. It took 8 months to build, has over 40,000 pieces,...
Posted by John Baichtal | Thursday September 13th, 2012 11:00 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Robotics | 4 Comments
Call me old school, but there’s just a special kind of awesome embodied by pinball machines, that video games can’t compete with in my book. The artwork, the lights, the...
Posted by Goli Mohammadi | Thursday September 6th, 2012 7:00 PM
Categories: Fun & Games, Home | 2 Comments
Why would grown men and women want to race around a track on hacked and modified Power Wheels toys? Simply because it might just be the most fun you’ve ever...
Posted by Goli Mohammadi | Wednesday August 29th, 2012 6:12 PM
Categories: Fun & Games, General, Hackerspaces | 3 Comments
I have been hacking on some cheap R/C cars, lately, and wanted to etch metal films off of a few of the bits. I knew that the usual strong acid...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday August 17th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Science | 13 Comments
When I was younger, I absolutely loved the Pinewood Derby, the miniature car building and racing competition that we participated in as Cub Scouts. Recently, I was talking to a...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Thursday August 16th, 2012 11:30 AM
Categories: Fun & Games | 2 Comments
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