Michael S. Hart, the founder of the Project Gutenberg, passed away this week at age 64 in Urbana, Illinois. He single-handedly created the first free e-books and then organized a...
Posted by Dale Dougherty | Friday September 9th, 2011 3:30 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Makers | 10 Comments
This video of Thingiverse user dougc314′s motorized cube gears caught my attention, this morning, on one of my co-workers’ blogs. It’s a modification of user emmett’s much-copied screwless cube gears...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday September 8th, 2011 6:44 AM
Categories: 3D Printing, Computers & Mobile, Fun & Games | 4 Comments
It’s from Thingiverse user DieselG. You can click through to learn what it’s for. DieselG, if you read this, I very much hope you’ll let us see how it works...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday September 7th, 2011 6:00 AM
Categories: 3D Printing, Computers & Mobile, Tools | 3 Comments
This week's Flickr pool roundup includes some sweet Halo props, impressive amateur astrophotography, a Viking helmet with a fiber-optic mohawk, and more! Check it out!
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Sunday September 4th, 2011 12:42 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Makers, Photography & Video | 7 Comments
Stanford School of Engineering is offering three classes this fall with open enrollment and free admission. The first is Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. It is taught by Peter Norvig, author...
Posted by Jake Spurlock | Thursday September 1st, 2011 11:30 AM
Categories: Education | 7 Comments
Highlights from this week's MAKE Flickr pool roundup include some lovely long-exposure double-pendulum light painting, a beautifully-built and -shot cigar-box guitar, and an awesome WWII-era GE searchlight stabbing into the...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Sunday August 28th, 2011 12:30 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Makers, Photography & Video | 3 Comments
Highlights from the Flickr pool this week include a striking Yoda head (printed in neon green, it is), some great sci-fi prop armor, and the most beautifully painted set of...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Sunday August 21st, 2011 8:00 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Makers, Photography & Video | 1 Comment
Highlights from the MAKE Flickr pool this week include a DIWO iron pour, a dorodango, a bowl made from stay tabs and zip ties, and more! Check 'em out!
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Sunday August 14th, 2011 8:30 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Makers, Photography & Video | No Comments
I think it was in one of the WWI-era "Boy Mechanic" books that I found a DIY project opening with the direction to "pick up a few sticks of dynamite...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday August 12th, 2011 1:00 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Home | 7 Comments
Leading off this week's MAKE Flickr Pool round-up is amateur chemist Hayden Parker's high-speed shot of a glass blown apart by the high explosive silver acetylide, which Hayden prepared himself....
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Sunday August 7th, 2011 10:30 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Makers, Photography & Video | No Comments
My personal fave from the MAKE Flickr pool this week is this shot from Shawn Thorsson of one of his fantastic green army men / garden gnome mash-up sculptures. Other...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Sunday July 31st, 2011 12:30 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Makers, Photography & Video | No Comments
Check out this week's highlights from the MAKE Flickr pool! My personal favorite comes from user maushammer, who photographed the scariest NFPA diamond I've ever seen at the Boulder Hazardous...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Sunday July 24th, 2011 12:25 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Makers, Photography & Video | No Comments
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