Cigarette Butt Street Rug
Artist Jesús Bubu Negrón made this street rug from cigarette butt wrappers. [via VVORK]
Month: April 2010
MAKE/MakerBot 3D printer giveaway!
To celebrate (one last time) the success of our Desktop Manufacturing issue of MAKE, we’ve teamed up with the folks at MakerBot Industries. We’re going to be giving away a CupCake CNC, in the first ever official MakerBot CupCake CNC giveaway and Thingiverse design challenge! One lucky 3D designer will win a Deluxe CupCake CNC […]
A Conversation With Designers of the Ace Hotel NYC
When I was in Portland last year, I visited my friend, Kim, at her hotel. She’d booked a room at the Ace, and though I was completely unfamiliar with the group of hotels before that experience, I haven’t been able to get the Ace off my mind ever since. The design, decor and just … […]
000000bot draws graf tags made on an iPad
Evan Roth writes: The 000000bot team demoed this iPad to Graffiti Analysis to 000000book to iPhone to robot to pen to paper system at Stanford’s Robotics Week.
Gypsy Junker Backyard Cabin
Build a small backyard cabin entirely from reclaimed and dumpster-scrounged materials.
Quantum mechanics talk at PS1 tonight
Chicago hackerspace Pumping Station One is hosting NIST researcher and University of Maryland professor Dr. Ian Spielman, who will give a talk on quantum mechanics. Doors open at 7pm and the talk begins at 8. Free. Over the past twenty or thirty years a series of technical innovations have allowed experimental physicists to cool clouds […]
Gallery of multileggged misnomerbots
Wired just posted a gallery of multipod robots which is, somewhat embarrassingly, headlined with “Robo Spiders,” in spite of the fact that almost all of them are hexapods. Looks like somebody over there needs a robobiologist to help them distinguish roboinsects from roboarachnids. Still, interesting browsing for the robophilic. Shown above is a rendering of an evil military spy-derbot that UK defense giant BAE Systems will probably never actually build.
