We’re seeing more and more taxidermy projects lately – from individuals learning the traditional craft to classes in metropolitan areas. I’ve seen a lot of galleries with some type of taxidermy exhibit as well, perhaps there’s a trend. Here’s a duck mouse. Canida writes – “Captured on video: a duck-footed mouse, created through the wonders […]
Back in October of 2006 our sharp eyed MAKE readers spotted a strange water craft and ultimately figured out what it was, here’s a story about it’s debut by the SF Chronicle — “The strangest vessel made its formal premiere Thursday on San Francisco Bay, and it was a sight to see: It looked like […]
Tons of free PDFs of monsters to download and make – [via] – Link.
Tom from Robot magazine writes – “One of our readers hacked a Robonova-1 and gave it the ability to speak. It uses a small Quadravox QV306M1 chip that can accept up to four minutes of audio files that can be broken into up to 240 separate ound bites–you can source sound files from practically anywhere. […]
Robot dreams writes – “The Maru Family, winners of the ROBO-ONE 10 competition with King Kizer, won a limited edition, human sized, Gundam kit and have documented the whole assembly process from start to finish with some great and very detailed photos.” – [via] Link.
Today is the last day of U-Ram Cho’s work @ bitforms in NYC, if you can’t make here are our pictures- Link. U-Ram Choe’s work engages a fanciful dialog of aesthetics and machinery, and explores themes of biological transformation, flight, and movement. In his recent work, large-scale metal and plastic automata materialize with such a […]
In this Weekend Projects podcast, Bre Pettis is joined by circuit bender Justin Gerardy to explain how to circuit bend. Then we bent up a Speak and Read and an Omnichord. With the omnichord, we found everything by probing around for cool sounds. If you’ve never done this, you’ve gotta try it out and circuit […]
