MAKE Flickr Pool member Rory Nugent, a resident researcher at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, posted some cool BEAM-like robo-critters he created as part of his thesis. You can see his thesis presentation on the link below. In it, he explains his exploration of how to imbue machines, robots, with the characteristics of life. Through this […]
Congratulations to Katie Weiss, who’s won Complete Embellishing: Techniques and Projects by Kayte Terry in our giveaway last Monday. Thanks to everyone who entered! Related: Kayte Terry Q+A and Book Giveaway
Standford’s Stanford’s School of Engineering has released a number of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering courses online, in their entirety, called Standford Engineering Everywhere. The online program includes all course materials—notes, tests, and complete lecture recordings—free for students or educators to use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. SEE users may pick […]
Hack food or kitchen tools and win great prizes! The Instructables Hungry Scientist Contest will be running through October 27th. Official rules are here. Yum!
The “Robot Rabbit” by artist Paul Granjon is an automated installation that features a modded toy rabbit seated on a patch of live grass. The robot repeats the word “robot rabbit” at a rate of 1 word a second while the grass is automatically watered by an electric pump when the humidity level gets low. […]
Spotted in the CRAFT Flickr pool: These unique cozies ThinkingMama made for her reusable water bottles–presumably from recycled felted sweaters. I like the bird-in-tree motif as well as the rocketship.
“Audience”, an art installation by Random International and Chris O’Shea is a series of autonomous, head-like mirrors that react organically and collectively to members of the public as they walk around them. They were also choreographed so that an individual dancer could find their own distinctive reflection in the mirrors working together as one unit. […]
