Ok, we might need to do this for the next Maker Faire… Alesis69 writes – “They filled a pool with a mix of cornstarch and water with a concrete mixer truck. It becomes a “non-newtonian fluid“. When stress is applied to the liquid it exhibits properties of a solid. Recorded at Barcelona, Spain…” [via] – […]
Our editor at large David Pescovitz spotted these amazing sculptures and how-to… he writes – “Artist Julian Voss-Andreae sculpts magnificent representations of protein molecules out of wood, metal, and other materials. He’s also written a HOWTO on making your own protein sculptures from the datasets for three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules freely available from the […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member cyenobite posted up a bunch of photos from the 11/12 MAKE: Philly meeting – Highlights included a workshop on soldering and a presentation & Maker Challenge on BEAM (Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics, and Mechanics) robotics – Link. Related: MAKE: Philly Art Buggy – Link. MAKE: Philly – Link. More: Beam bots […]
It’s a big week for game consoles, limited Nintendo Wii’s are going out to reviewers, as are Playstation 3’s – one of the things the PS has going for it for the Maker crowd is that it runs Linux, it’s a little unclear exactly what that will mean, but here are some first clues… Pranav […]
Watching TV, one drop a time… – “Very Slow Scan Television (VSSTV) is a new television format that we have developed building upon Slow Scan Television (SSTV), an image transmission system used by Ham Radio amateurs. VSSTV uses broadcasts from this historic public domain television system and regular bubble wrap to construct an analogous system: […]
Kabukistar writes – “This instructable will show you how to make those nifty 3D virtual-reality “tours,” that you see on some web-pages, in Windows, using entirely free software. If you’re not quite sure what I’m talking about, this is a VR panorama from WWU’s campus, which I’ll be making for an example in this instructable…” […]
MAKE reader cparada writes in with this addition to our previous maker “workshops” post… – “Here’s an interesting variation: Garages in Baltic Russia. [These are in Murmansk (МýрманÑк), per Wikipedia: “a city in the extreme northwest of Russia with a seaport on the Kola Bay, 12km from the Barents Sea on the northern shore of […]
