Thin(k) Ice
A chilly reception for Minnesota’s Art Shanty Projects.
Month: March 2008
Mac Softie
Maitreya at Craft Log made this Mac softie as a gift for a baby shower. She hand embroidered the rainbow logo and made a lolcat for all of our enjoyment. Link.
CRAFT: 06 NYC Release Party
Thanks to Diana Rupp of Make Workshop for offering her space and making the NYC CRAFT release party such a success. I thought that Becky and I were going to spend a lot of time teaching Moxie’s monster pattern, but people jumped right in and came up with some really creative monsters… some that aren’t […]
Mechanical tentacle
From the MAKE Flickr pool Member isobot added some photos of his mechanically elegant tentacle design for use in robotic applications. Can’t wait to see the final application – Link See also: New Sientist -Robotic tentacles get to grips with tricky objects- Link Related: Hexateuthis, a robotic hexapod – Link
Make on NPR
NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday had a nice report on our growing DIY culture, featuring brief interviews with Instructables’ Eric Wilhelm, Etsy’s Rob Kalin, and our own Phil Torrone – “If you just Google anything in your home, there’s probably a hack or a mod for it,” Torrone says. “And there’s probably someone who’s completely obsessed […]
Skateboard wheel finial
Have a skateboarding motif in your house? Or maybe just in your teenager’s room? Kevin writes in about this nice how-to on making curtain rod finials out of skateboard wheels – Link.
FIRST robots square off @ VCU
Video from the NASA/VCU FIRST robotics competition – A lot of durability and articulation seem required for this bot-bout. It’s really amazing what a group of high school students can crank out in six weeks. Get a closer look at some of the players and makers involved: NASA Langley Research Center/VCU School of Engineering FIRST […]
