Five lucky survey participants will win $50 Maker Shed gift certificates (don’t forget to enter your contact info so we can notify you if you win)! This survey will help shape Make: Online in 2010, so tell us what you think!
Flickr user j_tenkely wanted to do his own powder coating, so he bought a commercial powder-gun and built a custom oven in his garage. He says, “the entire oven cost about $250, but when it runs about $150 to do a bike frame & fork, it’s easy to break-even.”
Evan Roth at Free Art and Technology writes: Welcome to GML week @fffffat! Graffiti Markup Language (GML) is a new XML file type specifically designed for archiving graffiti tags. Gestural graffiti motion data of a tag created in GML-supported software is saved as a text file with a “.GML†extension…. a new digital standard for […]
With the new LEGO Photo iPhone app you can convert snapshots into a LEGO photo mosaic. Just take a picture, press a button, and watch the app build the image out of LEGO. Use the resulting image on your favorite social networking site or as a guide for your own layout.
Check out this build video of a Dell Inspiron netbook modded to resemble a gigantic Dell Mini 3i Android smartphone.
Here come the open source culture = piracy articles… from CNN. “With the open-source culture on the Internet, the idea of ownership — of artistic ownership — goes away,” Alexie (novelist and poet Sherman Alexie) added. “It terrifies me.” It’s more terrifying when someone groups open source with piracy. In my experience, as an artist […]
Fractal polyhedra clusters By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics At The Math Museum, we are interested in making cool mathematical ideas accessible and tactile. With a good 3D printing machine, you can make beautiful fractal polyhedra clusters like the one below. This nylon model consists of twelve groups of twelve small stellated dodecahedra. […]
