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Toys, games and making
209 links saved from 2005 to 2026; 207 with a note, 134 in a Weekly Thing.
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- toolsandtoys.net 8, youtube.com 6, kickstarter.com 3, kottke.org 3, xkcd.com 3
2026
- BeastBox: Your Mouth Is the Drum Kit @ Minnedemo42
- Mandelnaut — Making Fractal Wallpapers
- Make Something Wonderful | Steve Jobs
- The DNS Museum
- Museum of numbers
- Apple Copland D11E4 Emulator in Your Browser
- The joy of making stuff with a 3D printer
- inkwash · how it works
- putt.day
- The Emacsification of Software
- FilamentHound — Best Prices on 3D Printing Filament
- Your Name in Landsat 🛰️
- MOSS — A Painting Toy Where Every Brush Is a Tiny Program
- Isometric NYC
2025
- Minivac 601 Simulator
- Subway Builder
- When design drives behavior
- Getting Started with Obsidian Bases
- Mechanical Watch: Exploded View
- Scrappy: make little apps for you and your friends
- Lazy Tetris
- Generating Physically Stable and Buildable LEGO Designs from Text
- Formula 1 Drivers Just Hit the Track in These Full-Size Lego Cars
- 🔨 Smash Smash
- Bubbles!
- Yessica's Pencils
2024
- Generating Worlds
- Trashie - Do good, get rewarded
- LAN Party House
- 34x34x34 Rubik's Cube Record By Matt Bahner
- A closer look at Nintendo’s adorable Alarmo clock
- The Lego Great Ball Contraption
- Dune Shell
- Is My Blue Your Blue?
- The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
- Immersive Math
- Chapter I: The birth of Parquet
- Rabbit’s R1 is a little AI gadget that grows on you
- Fizz Creations “Tetris” Waffle Maker
- Spatial Persona on Vision Pro changes the game
- How the team behind Zelda made physics feel like magic
- xkcd: Eclipse Coolness
- Byte-sized Swift: Building Tiny Games for the Playdate
- Beautiful Things
- Sora — Creating video from text
- Stract — Open Source Search Engine
- The Endless Acid Banger
2023
- Morty: Every escape room. Every haunt. Ever.
- The world’s largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley
- Find Your Pi Day
- The Singing Pumpkin
- The Compact Calendar 2023-2024 – DSri Seah
- Procreate Dreams
- Rooms.xyz
- pixpaint
- Why You'll Fall in Love with POAPs: Unraveling the Charm of Digital Collectibles
- Stretch 15
- Space Elevator
- Concrete and pi
- Oops, You Wrote a Database
- Peel — Drum machine in your browser
- “Battery Daddy” Battery Organizer Storage Case
- The simple, one-page calendar that lasts all year
- A Letter to the POAP Community
2022
- Bubbles
- WeCard, the evolution of Personal Cards | Welook
- 🏴☠️ Make a Pirate ☠️
- The UNIX Pipe Card Game
- Slow Roads
- ENS, POAP, and IYK Devcon Bogotá Swag
- IYK - POAP Card
- Playdate Community Bundle
- FOMO Nouns
- Micro Blockclock — Coinkite Store
- Text Chat Animator
- Medieval Fantasy City Generator
- Growing MANGO Tree From Seed - ONE YEAR Time Lapse
- Builder Brain
2021
- Perilous Shores by watabou
- Miniature 3456 LED cube
- Tisbest Charity Gift Cards Make Charitable Giving Fun
- Chatter Telephone
- Townscaper on the Web
- Curves and Surfaces
- Kingfisher & Wombat: I have been playing around with Townscaper…
- POAP NYC
- Playdate Pulp: Zero to video game in 60 Seconds
- The Story of Playdate
- Brickit: Rebuild your Lego
- Gently Down the Stream
- Playdate Update — 6/8/2021
- Avatar generator playground - Boring Avatars
- Jiggy Puzzles - We make puzzles worth framing – JIGGY Puzzles
- LEGO IDEAS - Macintosh Plus Apple
- Iceberger
- Clubhouse Bio Generator ― perchance.org ⚅
- MuscleWiki
2020
- Pattern Generator
- Fridge Magnets
- drumbit | Online drum machine
- Marvel Pinball
- The remarkable number 1/89
- Edward Tufte: Books - Seeing with Fresh Eyes
- Up Games
- present: A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects.
- Japanese Grandparents Create Life-Size Totoro Bus Stop For Grandkids
- Fold 'N Fly » Paper Airplane Folding Instructions
- Got Your Back
- Tidymodels
- Go, meet Lua
- Students Can Respond to Daily Writing Prompts, Inspired by The New York Times, at Home for Free
- Cairo Throw
2019
- dgsh — directed graph shell
- Andrew Levitt Recreates Catalina Wallpaper
- WHAT THE GOLF?
- Escape rooms are very big business
- Whimsical — The Visual Workspace
- 21wallpaper - Download curated wallpapers for you screen
- Be My Eyes - Bringing sight to blind and low-vision people
- SR-71 Online - SR-71 Flight Manual
- Playdate. A New Handheld Gaming System
- Follow-up: I found two identical packs of Skittles, among 468 packs with a total of 27,740 Skittles
- Calory Review: Simple, Convenient Calorie Tracking
- countdown
- Video Game Controller Cufflinks by ElegantLocketShop [Etsy] —Tools and Toys
- Custom Mission Patches - design and print NASA-style mission patch stickers for your team.
- The 2018 Emoji Report
- Happy Public Domain day: for real, for the first time in 20 years! / Boing Boing
- Little Stones for 2019
2018
- Pokemon Let’s Go: Well, I guess my adult ass is going to collect them all
- An Infinite Icosahedral Puzzle of the Earth
- Puzzle Montage by Tim Klein
- Fold N Fly ✈
- Medieval Fantasy City Generator by watabou
- Vector by Anki: A giant roll forward for robot kind. by Anki
- M. C. Escher (1898-1972). Prints and Drawings
- Coinholder Club
- Anker PowertPort Solar 21-Watt Charger
- xkcd: IMHO
- Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker: Everything you need to know!
- DIY Wall Display
- HyperCard Zine
- Alto’s Odyssey: A sequel to one of our favorite iOS games
- Pre-Order Alto’s Odyssey —Tools and Toys
- PocketSprite - Tiny Retro Gaming on your Keychain
- xkcd: The End of the Rainbow
2017
- IKEA effect
- A Holiday Gift List of Crap I Don't Regret
- Illimat
- The 2017 Christmas Catalog
- Licensed Mugs From Star Wars, Marvel, & More | Geeki Tikis
- Game Pick: Flower —macsparky
- Offline Only
- Home Screens – Gabe Weatherhead —macsparky
- Restore Historic Mission Control by Space Center Houston
- Sorting 2 Tons of Lego, Many Questions, Results
- Howtoons
- Local educators get big response on Kickstarter for computing game
- ‘Monument Valley 2’ for iOS —Tools and Toys
- Omni Archive
- Loog Pro
- “Planet Plates” Astronomy Dinner Plates
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
- Foldify
- SMWCon Fall 2012 Session Playlist
- Weehoo Bicycle Trailer
- The Full Scale Millennium Falcon Project
- Creating Realistic Grass in Blender
- Franconia Sculpture Park
- The Setup - Chris Onstad
- Make Your Own Kubb Set For Dirt Cheap
- Sylvansport Go Camping Travel Trailer
- City of Edina, Centennial Lakes Park, Putting Course
- Esurientpit - This old damn house
- IndiGO-JIB
- Caine's Arcade
- The Polymorphic Bench
- Water
- Kubbin’ at Pacific Wonderland Woodworks
- Sustainable Living Project: Making your own Kubb set for free