Spring is in the air! The snow is melting, and we’re looking to do some cleaning in our warehouse. What does that mean for you? Well, for starters, we have a bunch of producst on sale in the Maker Shed. We’ll even throw in free shipping on orders over $250! Just use code “CLEARME” at checkout.
Build your dream, then make it move! Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 is the latest version of the robotic building set that launched First Lego League and inspired thousands of kids. People have used Mindstorms to make everything from robotic animals to Rubik’s cube solvers. Today, in association with The Lego Group, we’re giving away a […]
Tokyo/Glow is a short film, written and directed by Jonathan Bensimon, about the little glowing guy from a cross-walk sign who jumps down from the sign, at night, and wanders around Tokyo gawking at all the lights. I don’t think there are any CG effects. The film’s amazing look was achieved by combining a real actor in a custom glow-suit with a bunch of photographic hi-jinks: stop-motion, time-lapse, long exposure…did I miss anything?
Our two favorite crafty places in NY are merging into one location in Soho! Purl and Purl Patchwork will be moving together under one roof and under the new name of Purl Soho sometime in April. Congrats to our friends there! We can’t wait to take a visit. In the meantime, this post on the […]
The Association of Professional Model Makers (APMM) 2010 conference, “Revolutions in Model Making – Creating the Future Faster,” will be held on March 26-29, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Cambridge, MA. The conference’s keynote speaker is Neil Gershenfeld, Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms and author of FAB: The Coming Revolution on […]
Sean @ Make: Online writes: This week’s clever maker-entrepreneur award goes to Etsy sellers Cleaner Science, who make and sell these awesome soaps that look like petri dishes full of growing germs. They’re easy to make (I presume), inexpensive to buy, light enough to ship cheaply, and totally original. Home run! Bonus: some include glow-in-the-dark […]
Liam built this impressive robot, then used it to demonstrate the difference between proportional and PID control.
