Seeing this old Connect 4 game took me on a nostalgic trip back to the early 80s, sprawled out on our old brown carpeting, spending hours strategizing, stacking the chips,...
Posted by Goli Mohammadi | Wednesday August 15th, 2012 5:00 PM
Categories: Fun & Games | No Comments
A full-size skeeball game took over a year to make, and is built entirely with K'Nex components.
Posted by Nick Normal | Monday August 13th, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: Fun & Games | 8 Comments
It’s amazing what magic can be cast with an empty detergent bottle, some bottle caps, and a flourish of paint. Martine Camillieri is a found objects artist who created this...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Sunday August 12th, 2012 3:15 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Fun & Games | 13 Comments
This giant-size version of Operation from Brian of the Lansing Makers Network was an absolute hit at Maker Faire Detroit. The game is played just like the original and uses...
Posted by Michael Castor | Friday August 10th, 2012 10:00 AM
Categories: Arduino, Fun & Games | 2 Comments
Christopher Monaco decided that his normal, run-of-the-mill Etch-a-Sketch wasn't quite cool enough, so he built his own from an array of 256 LEDs. Turning the knobs blaze an illuminated path,...
Posted by Michael Colombo | Thursday July 26th, 2012 12:00 PM
Categories: Fun & Games | 4 Comments
A while back, I wrote an Intern’s Corner post entitled My Open Source Life Outside of MAKE, in which I talked about my experience working on Alien Arena, the open...
Posted by Max Eliaser | Tuesday July 17th, 2012 3:30 PM
Categories: Fun & Games | 2 Comments
Ever since Skylanders was released last holiday season, one of the most commonly requested additions to the franchise has been articulated toys. Custom toy maker Jin Saotome decided not to...
Posted by Blake Maloof | Thursday June 28th, 2012 1:30 PM
Categories: Fun & Games | 8 Comments
TED is a large, wall-based installation consisting of an array of 80 Teddy Ruxpin dolls that speak emotional content gathered from the web via synthetic speech with animated mouths. The...
Posted by John Baichtal | Monday June 25th, 2012 6:30 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Fun & Games | 2 Comments
Check out this mind blowing dynamic domino sculpture by renegade artist FlippyCat. This time-lapse video shows his painstakingly hand-constructed Starry Night rendition. It’s an amazing sculpture in static form, but...
Posted by Gillian BenAry | Monday June 25th, 2012 5:30 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Fun & Games | 4 Comments
With a desire to find out how a deep display would look, video artist Blair Neal created the Crayolascope, a fantastic 3D depth display out of a dozen hacked Crayola...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Monday June 25th, 2012 4:00 AM
Categories: Arduino, Art & Design, Fun & Games | 10 Comments
My Little Pony enthusiasts are serious about their ponies. Apparently there’s a whole community of folks who lament the fact that the dolls have actual doll hair that you can...
Posted by Goli Mohammadi | Friday June 22nd, 2012 4:20 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Fun & Games, Hacks | 15 Comments
I love watching this time-lapse video of a MakerBot Replicator printing a Yoda bust, from BusyBotz. Time-lapse is a great way to capture the magic of a 3D printer on...
Posted by Laura Cochrane | Friday June 15th, 2012 5:28 PM
Categories: 3D Printing, Fun & Games | 3 Comments
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