Captain-ahab writes- Last week I dropped my new iphone 3G in the Farmington River. It’s become a very expensive paperweight so tonight I figured I’d get some use out of it. Seeing it was the river that took it from me, it’s gonna at least catch me some fish. Thanks Jonathan! I can imagine some […]
The Handcar Regatta at the Railroad Square in Santa Rosa, CA is happening this Sunday, September 28. Come by our Make Mobile where you can say hi to the peeps at CRAFT & MAKE! The public is encouraged to form teams of up to four creative people to build and race your own rail-bound, human […]
(Illustration by Nate Van Dyke for Wired) If you read science fiction, you’ll already know who Neal Stephenson is. For those that don’t, suffice it to say that the author of Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, and a considerable fortune of other gems is ranked #1 on Amazon Science Fiction and #74 overall for his new […]
Off the (Meat) Hook shows us how to make this hyper-colorful six-layer birthday cake with no-boil frosting. Fun!
This humanoid soccer robot leg was built from foamboard and old servo motors. Check out the video to see the total flexibility of this simple creation. Studio469
Anyone who works enough with wood wants a jointer. What do you do if you need one, but don’t have one? Improvise! Check out this great instructable on joining wood without a jointer. A planer/jointer is not always available to the home woodworker who wants to do fine cabinetry. Look at the piece of cabinetry […]
These two videos of robotic projects by artist Michael Kontopoulos show examples of his work that feature machines with obvious flaws. “Machine that Tries to Draw Circles” is a machine that exhibits a chaotic attempt at drawing a circle by failing miserably. The other video of “Machines that Almost Fall Over” shows hammers programmed to […]
