Jen Cotton and Jessica Floeh made this super helpful walkthrough for converting your hand-drawn illustrations into vector format, useful for silkscreening, designing your own stationary/paper products, or laser cutting! They show you how to scan the file using Photoshop, then show a few different tracing options in Illustrator. More: 101: Adobe Illustrator
I love this spider-like walking mechanism, spotted on the MAKE Flickr pool. Here are some of the deets: The walking action uses the Klann linkage, specifically, configuration E006. The motors are Solarbotics GM17, from Technobots, which will generate a decent torque from 5v upwards, and a nice scurry at 12v. Pivot bolts are all M3x10 […]
John Martin, of Reallusion, makers of iClone, the real-time animation software I wrote about a few days ago, has kindly donated ten copies of iClone4 PRO to give away to MAKE readers! How exciting. iClone4 PRO retails for $199, so this is quite an offer. So, what can iClone4 PRO do? Here’s a video that […]
OK, that allusion is a little unfair, since there’s really only, er, augmentation going on here, rather than deliberate handicapping. Anyhoo, waaaaay back in 1997, German artist Hans Hemmert (who since has done some interesting things with balloons) threw a party at which each guest was outfitted with a pair of shoe-stilts chosen to bring his or her height up to 2.0 meters, so that all the guests could interact, literally, on the same level. I’m guessing, however, that there was no dancing. [via Core77]
I am so glad that Not Martha has been sharing photos from her vacation to Paris. Her shots are beyond amazing, and she seems to find interesting and beautiful things everywhere she goes. She’s blogged about cheese, chocolate, and cake, but the mangosteens are the most exotic and interesting to me.
What could be better than a regular party? A space party, of course!
Everyone loves music but making your own music is the most fun. Especially for young makers. Music can be a gateway to becoming a maker by learning how to build instruments and exploring different ways of making interesting sounds. This Saturday, at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, we will have the third program in our […]
