Do-It-Yourself Illustrated

Our son loves stories about space no less than other kids. To inspire his thinking, we setup his own space research project on the ceiling of his bedroom. However, the ceiling fan was the outstanding thing and we have to decorate it as satellite to put in line with other items under the roof. Space [...]

When I saw the bouncing ball with colour LED flashes inside,  I  guessed, that this can be used as red-blue-flashing outfit for toy police car. Having RC car that was missing them, I made this small top addition to the toy to entertain my son. First, we need to find outfit that will housing the [...]

The 6-volt batteries are sucks, this is a fact.  Besides very low capacity they also cost a fortune in “Toy-R-Us”. Being challenged by efficiency of my son’s ride-on jeep, I decided to rewire it to use normal lead-acid 12-volt battery. Though, the vehicle has two rear 12v motors with independent gears, it originally uses two [...]