prototypes

Project Update from Make: Learning Labs

Project Update from Make: Learning Labs

“Innovation is not only about finding a way to use pre-existing theory or solutions into a new problem, it’s also multidisciplinary, has to be practical and it’s not something that people just do on their own” Brian, US  “Before, I thought projects are just for school or work. Now I have a list of projects […]

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Inventor Reveals the Secrets Behind His Attacknid Walking Robot Toys

Inventor Reveals the Secrets Behind His Attacknid Walking Robot Toys

See how the inventor of the Attacknid walking robotic toy took his ideas from prototypes to products.

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Why Handcrafters Should Embrace Digital Fabrication

Why Handcrafters Should Embrace Digital Fabrication

Around a year ago while I was tutoring a 3D printing workshop in San Juan, one of my 3D printers caught the attention of a couple of fine arts students. Interestingly, they took opposing attitudes towards the technology. One was amazed by the widening opportunities presented to him, while the other felt the need to […]

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GE’s FirstBuild Offers ,000 in Prizes at Upcoming Appliance Hackathon

GE’s FirstBuild Offers $60,000 in Prizes at Upcoming Appliance Hackathon

  Have you ever been standing in your kitchen, operating some appliance, and thought of a better way to do the task? Maybe you’ve come up with a change to the design that would make things easier or more efficient. That is the moment that FirstBuild hopes to capture. Currently there is a huge gap […]

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Prototypes That Last: Simple Tips for Making Durable Parts, Part 2

Prototypes That Last: Simple Tips for Making Durable Parts, Part 2

In the previous installment of Prototypes that Last, we investigated several simple, powerful ways of predicting and improving the load limits of the parts you make. That’s pretty cool, but we have conveniently overlooked the fact that the elastic deformation of mechanical components can sometimes become a problem long before they suffer any sort of structural failure. Let’s pick up where we left off last week, and sort it out once and for all.

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Hacktastic Horizontal Helical 3D Display

Hacktastic Horizontal Helical 3D Display

Besides being a generally cool idea, French inventor Michel David’s volumetric display prototype gets serious wacky-contraption style points. Michel puts the cost of his machine at €40, and though his results are definitely proof-of-concept quality, I have to agree with Mike Szczys that the prototype itself “looks like a DaVinci sketch.”

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