Year: 2008

Making Austin Weird: Blacksmithing!

Making Austin Weird: Blacksmithing!

From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I’ll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there! Blacksmithing isn’t just a scene in medieval movies: check out the Austin Metal Authority area at Maker Faire for “a live demo of blacksmithing techniques, including […]

Homebrew Multi-touch display

IDEO has a new lab blog that catalogs some of their projects and experiments, here’s a multi-touch display… They released the code for the FTIR server and the Flash API here if you want to check it out… At IDEO we’re all about building to think. Learning from books and websites and product demos is […]

Skateboard flower

Skateboard flower

Ted Hunter’s skateboard flower via NOTCOT. Ted writes- This piece, I built is called Reach for Light. It was last shown at the Wood Turning Center in Philadelphia but was originally built for an art exhibition in Hawaii . It’s a good example of free hand vacuum veneer bending. The flower petal designs are actually […]