Austin Event: Dorkbot
This beautiful flyer, by Joey Lopez, says it all: If you’re in / near Austin, hope to see you at next Wednesday’s Dorkbot!
Year: 2009
Building papercrete domes
I blog about Mikey and Wendy’s projects very frequently because they’re doing so many cool things. One of the most impressive is their papercrete dome, which is now documented in this Instructable: When my girlfriend (Wendy Tremayne) and I arrived in southern New Mexico one of the first things we did was look around for […]
Taking Android “cupcake” out for a spin
The upcoming revision of the Android operating system, code named cupcake, has generated a lot of excitement among users of the first Android-based phone, the T-Mobile G1. Because Google’s Android operating system is Open Source, it’s possible, but a little difficult, to test cupcake out on a real phone. Among the many improvements in cupcake […]
Craftsman/Instructables workshop of the future contest winners
Give a community the motivation of a $20,000 grand prize, and they can produce a lot of great tutorials. That’s just what Instructables and Craftsman did, and they selected one winner and ten finalists whose Instructables are all worth a good read. Several have been featured on MAKE, but not the one on extracting honey! […]
Knit Hats by Sarah Lamont
I’m loving this knit robot hat by Sarah Lamont. She offers a bunch of other fun styles as well, including hats adorned with tractors, sock monkeys, and fruit.
Robot that reassembles itself after being kicked
Amazing shape-shifter robotic system being developed at University of Pennsylvania that can locate its subsystem clusters and reassemble itself after being kicked or otherwise disrupted. Shape-shifting robots take form [via Boing Boing]
If DaVinci invented the iPhone
From the makers of Exploded Phone comes the iSteam Phone, a t-shirt depicting an exploded view illustration that asks the musical question: What would the iPhone have looked like if Leonardo had invented it in the 15th century? iSteam Phone [via Boing Boing Gadgets]