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Painting Gorgeous Colors onto Copper Using Only An Open Flame

Painting Gorgeous Colors onto Copper Using Only An Open Flame

By Theron Sturgess

Theron Sturgess

Theron is an educator, business owner, writer, and consultant working within Springfield, MO and the Ozarks community. He enjoys making and building with his 11 year old son and likes to read and write about science, technology, education, sci fi, martial arts, and philosophy.

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Watch as metalworking artist Philip Cook demonstrates his skill with “painting” brilliant colors onto copper with a blowtorch.

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Now That’s Playing With Fire: Everett Bradford’s “Prometheus Device”

Now That’s Playing With Fire: Everett Bradford’s “Prometheus Device”

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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Check out the sweet animated GIFs that Raleigh, NC photographer Shane Deruise put together for us from his shoot, for the MAKE Volume 35 “Playing With Fire” spread, of engineer Everett Bradford showing off his wrist-mounted “Pyro” costume flamethrower.

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Meet Exuro, The Arduino-Brained Kinect-Tracking Flame-Shooting Bot

Meet Exuro, The Arduino-Brained Kinect-Tracking Flame-Shooting Bot

By Nick Normal

Nick Normal

I'm an artist & maker. A lifelong biblioholic, and advocate for all-things geekathon. Home is Long Island City, Queens, which I consider the greatest place on Earth. 5-year former Resident of Flux Factory, co-organizer for World Maker Faire (NYC), and blogger all over the net. Howdy!

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The robot Exuro is driven with Python, controlled with Arduino, tracking with Kinect, and best of all shoots fire every time someone donates to The Crucible in Oakland, CA.

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Flaming legs

By Chris Connors

Chris Connors

Making things is the best way to learn about our world.

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Evidently the people of New Mexico have seen it all. Even robolegs gone wild! Carlos is a robotic everyman. He’s not one of those fancy deep sea dwelling, swimming pool competing, publicity hogging, multiple kill, or planet exploring robots, just a regular robot doing his thing like us humans. Carlos was a college kinetic sculpture […]

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