MAKE was at the New York City FIRST Robotics Competition held at the Javitz center. I had no idea just how many people would be there (3,000 was one estimate) and how many amazing robots would be competing. Did I mention the team mascots? You can check out more pictures of the event in the […]
Karrie of Girl on the Rocks shows you how to make the cutest little woven needlebook in her tutorial. [ via Whip Up]
Whoa. Check out this cool cylon “robbit” posted to the Make: Flickr Pool. Cylon Animals
Last night I was fortunate enough to attend David Young’s MFA thesis exhibition at the Icehouse in Phoenix. He uses many interesting materials including pneumatics and surveillance cameras in his sphere-filled show titled “Unknown Object-ive.” From an interview with a local paper, he says: “They’re not meant to be looked at simply as beautiful objects,” […]
Collin @ MAKE writes: Run-of-the-mill tattoo designs are easy to fake and therefore easy to doubt. But forging a believably atrocious design with some inkjet tattoo paper could definitely turn some heads. I loved temporary tattoos as a kid, but I can’t imagine how much more I would have loved them if I could design […]
Today I attended the annual National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest finals at Purdue University. This year the task was to make a hamburger in no less than 20 steps, and the Purdue Armory was full of great, laboriously contrived burger-making machines. I had the opportunity to interview quite a few of the participants, so look […]
“Boy on a Skateboard” by artist Ray Rapp is a site-specific drawing and video installation of a still created from the skateboarding documentary film “Dogtown and Z-Boys” that plays on 1.8, 2.5 and 4 inch hanging LCD screens and DVD players along with yellow, green, and blue extension cables. Pretty intense visual design of the […]
