Billboard Swing Set Fly above the playground with this billboard-sized swing set. Built by French artist/architect Didier Faustino in Shenzhen, China, Double Happiness attempts to re-appropriate commercial billboard space for personal use. This one’s built from scratch, but intrepid makers could convert their own. Jump off at your own risk! makezine.com/go/swingset
—CC
LEAVE YOUR TIGHTS AT HOME AND STILL
LOOK GOOD FIGHTING CRIME WITH YOUR OWN
FLYING R/C SUPERHERO.
HIVEMIND FOR KIDS
Researchers at Indiana University Bloomington have developed a fun game (or “participatory simulation”) called
BeeSim to demonstrate systems thinking and collaborative
learning to children ages 5–7. Wearing Arduino-powered bee
puppets laced with conductive fabric and XBee radios, players
respond to LEDs mimicking basic bee stimuli in a race to
harvest digital nectar from electronic flowers and fill their
team’s computerized hive. And if that doesn’t sound like my
last desk job, I’ll bee darned. makezine.com/go/beesim
—Gregory Hayes
UP, UP,
AND AWAY!
SOLD AS A KIT OR A
PLAN from Greg Tanous
of Portland, Ore., the
RcSuperhero’s simple but
elegant cut-foam shapes
give the radio-controlled
flier a heroic human figure
that will delight fun-lovers
and strike fear into the
hearts of evildoers.
rcsuperhero.com
—GH
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