Jordan Miller of Philadelphia hackerspace Hive 76, with collaborators, has created a heated build platform for the MakerBot Cupcake CNC. A heated build platform slows down the rate at which a fabject cools, helping it cool more evenly. We love MakerBot, but we needed a better way to print larger objects (like parts for a […]
When Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, offered a class titled “How to Make (almost) Anything,” he was surprised to find himself inundated by students. In particular, Gershenfeld was taken aback by the fact that these students weren’t taking the class for some sort of abstract research, or to fulfill an […]
This art installation, originally designed by Daito Manabe and Motoi Ishibashi, allows Twitter-users to tweet instructions to web site that replies with an example output. Upon approval it sends the design to a bank of industrial sewing machines which then embroider the resulting pattern onto a t-shirt. The web site still works, but not sure […]
Fibers artist Jerry Bleem was a visiting professor in the fibers department at Arizona State University when I met him. He makes all kinds of incredible things, including these lusciously textured vessels constructed almost entirely from staples. The piece above is called Parable.
Ceramics artist Tsang Cheung Shing created this double-take-inducing piece entitled “Ying Yeung,” referencing both a beverage of mixed coffee and tea and the idea of love and marriage. [Thanks, Joe!]
Mollie of Wild Olive shares her template for printing your own Valentine sticky notes. You print out the page, and then place a sticky note in each square. (Make sure you center them really good.) Then you run the page through the printer again, and this time, it will print the heart and speech bubble […]
/p> PT @ MAKE points us to julienjaborska‘s bike tire belt, which I can almost smell through my screen. Not quite “upcycled,” as commenter jpersonna points out that the tire is clearly unused, but who knows, maybe it was defective?
