Leah Buechley is one of my favorite tech/craft innovators. Check out this video of her talk at the Design Futures lecture series: People knit scarves, build furniture, sew clothing, and solder radios together in their homes and garages. Diverse groups of people–girls and boys, grandparents and college students–lovingly engage in these hands-on low-tech hobbies. In […]
CDM highlights this interesting approach to music sequencing. More than just incredibly-fun-looking music software, Al Jazari is an art performance and installation (which also appears to be high in fun) – Al-Jazari is livecoded entirely by gamepad, and employs a simple graphical language to allow robots to interact with each other and move over a […]
From the MAKE: Flickr pool Gao writes – Hi my master: I has made a cheapest Standalone Arduino mini use ATMEGA8 and breadboard. maybe you would like see it,here it’s photo on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whaleforset/3197918087/ If you think that’s funny enough to post on makezine’s blog,,,just do it. Thank you very much for reading and sorry […]
More tiny stuff – I love this tiny polymer clay orange!
Steampunk maker Professor Fzz rebuilt a hydrogen/oxygen rocket kit into a thing of Victorian era beauty. He used a 12V 3.3Ah lead-acid battery to generate the hydrogen, and built a control system to monitor battery charge and fire the rocket. He also built his own spark igniter from a voltage generator, and constructed a lovely […]
Birdchick lives in Minnesota, where it’s wicked cold right now! She shot this video of what happens when you spray hot water at -20 degrees F. So are those threads of ice dropping down, anyone know exactly what is happening?
Since the first Arduino project contest went so awesomely, Libelium decided to do a sequel. They’re on the lookout for the best ways Arduino can improve your day-t-day. Document your project and write up a how-to to eneter. First prize winner will score GPS, GPRS, SD and solar modules for Arduino. Deadline is April 15th, […]
