Mitch Altman (inventor of the TV-B-Gone and Brain Machine) will be at this month’s DC401 meetup to talk about community building and show you how to mod a MiniPOV into a trippy RGB light. If you’re in or near Providence, this is not to be missed! John Duksta posted the details on the DC401 blog: […]
The myriad incarnations of the Arduino are really a testament to the effectiveness of platform standards that are designed around an open hardware, open source model. The Tinkerlog provides us with another example of this with an alternative take on the “breadboardable” Arduino: A couple of month ago I ordered my first Arduino board. It […]
Our cohort at Craftzine point us to this New York Times profile of Cal Lane, the artist we blogged about a few days back, who plasma-torches delicate lace patterns into steel. Turning Steel Into Lace – Link Related: Plasma-cut lace art – Link
Craftster user Bumfuzzlerumdum shares three simple patterns for creating these cute cat toy critters, ideal for filling with catnip or stringing onto a stick. Link.
I like Bunnie’s pick @ CES (Bunnie is an engineer, worked on Chumby also on the MAKE advisory board. CES is the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, USA) – The most stunning thing I saw at CES this year was no gadget, however. It was a mock-up of the “motherglass†substrate that Sharp uses […]
Mr. Funky creator Narumi Ogawa will be teaching a crochet class at The Little Knittery in Atwater Village on Sunday, February 3, from 3-6pm. Students will learn to make their own super cute bear like this one–Narumi is even providing the plastic eyes and nose. Narumi has given me crochet lessons before (here‘s a link […]
Spinal Rhythms by Eva Schindling – The robotic art work Spinal Rhythms investigates the qualities and dynamics of physical movement performed by inanimate shapes. Abstract stick-creature are actuated by elastic shape memory alloy springs and perform slow and noiseless movements. The movements are the subject of an embodied evolutionary computation process that controls the robotic […]
