Readymech papercraft monsters
Tons of free PDFs of monsters to download and make – [via] – Link.
Year: 2007
HOW TO – Make your Robonova-1 speak
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. […]
Building a giant Gundam robot
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.
U-Ram Choe – Mechanical art
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 […]
Circuit Bending – Make: Video Podcast
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 […]
Circuit Bending – Make: PDF Podcast
In this weeks Make: PDF Podcast, you’ll download a good chunk of circuit-bending instructions. First you’ll notice the photos of the Speak and Read and Omnichord circuit-bending projects and then you’ll find Reed Ghazala’s Incantor Tutorial for making a machine from the Speak and Spell family come to life. Watch the video and make sure […]
A Closer Look: Etsy Winter – Yeti Fur Purse
Yeti Fur Purse Red Feathers Earflap Hat Christine Davis (a.k.a. Lady Winter) brings fun and a little bit of magic back into cold January days. Her purse definitely looks like it’s hanging in Madam Yeti’s closet, and her wispy Red Feather earflap hat brings to mind an artifact from the farthest reaches of Lapland in […]