Scott Smith of Avella, PA uses his Shopbot CNC tool to build stage sets. His latest work involved creating scenery for “My Bloody Valentine 3D“, which opens Friday nationwide. If you like these kind of movies, here’s a few items to look for. For the horror flick, Scott used his ShopBot to fabricate signs, facades […]
Maker Profile – Steampunk premieres on Make: Episode 3 on makezine.tv at 7am CST January 17th Make: premieres in a few new places this weekend! Vermont Burlington-Plattsburgh, (VT statewide) Vermont Public Television 1/15/2009 Thurs 7:30PM California Los Angeles (San Bernardino) KVCR 1/17/2009 Sat 12:00 PM Illinois Champaign & Sprngfld WILL 1/17/2009 Sat 9:30 AM Be […]
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 […]
