After last week’s Teach Your Family to Solder announcement, I couldn’t help but think of this cool little project as perfect soldering practice. The Rock ‘N’ Roll Speakers first appeared on the pages of our sister publication CRAFT in Volume 07 as a sneak peek excerpt from one of our books, Fashioning Technology by Syuzi […]
Sarah James at Instructables is after my own heart (by way of my stomach) with these delicious looking ice cream drumsticks. Check out her tutorial, but be warned it will make you hungry.
Large scale coffee art… video here. Leonardo Da Venti latte: A total of 3,604 cups of coffee, each shaded by various amounts of cream or left black, were arranged to form a Mona Lisa for this digital print-out in Sydney.
Artist Peter Root’s Low-Rise via jwz. Low-Rise is a precarious assemblage of thousands of free-standing stacks of staples densely tessellated to create a city-like mosaic. Like a city, the staples are subject to the elements, on a micro scale. The slightest breath or vibration and the domino effect kicks in.
Calling all Salty Sea Dogs Your matey will look shipshape in this piratical costume. I’ve never owned a store-bought costume. I was one of those kids lucky enough to have a super crafty mom who would jump on her sewing machine and whip up anything from a placemat to a prom dress without hesitation. […]
In this Ignite talk, social roboticist Heather Knight talks about her work at JPL. The talk feels a bit rushed, but you can explore more about the projects she mentions at her website (link below). Marilyn Monrobot From MAKE magazine: In MAKE, Volume 19: Robots, Rovers, and Drones, learn how to make a model plane […]
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