MAKE Editor at Large David Pescovitz gave this wonderful talk at TEDxSoMA on “The world as a wunderkammer” (aka “cabinet of curiosities”). Hey, Mousey the Junkbot even makes a guest appearance. Woot! Pesco’s talk from TEDxSoMa: The World as a Wunderkammer From MAKE magazine: Check out MAKE, Volume 17: The Lost Knowledge issue! Buy your […]
Via Hizook comes this QuadDrive Roomba robot from the University of Bonn’s Autonomous Intelligent Systems Lab (NimbRo@Home). Check out the (German-language) video to see how the Roomabs move in unison via four servos connect to the base of the bot. And as Hizook points out, built on four Roombas, this is a bot that cleans […]
Wow, I just came across Portland artist Joel Henriques’ blog, Made by Joel, and it is a wealth of good ideas for children’s projects. I like the simplicity of his paper chicken animation – just two pieces of paper and a pencil. [via minieco]
Dwight Eschliman’s still life (photo) of the 37 ingredients in a Twinkie…
It’s pineapple season, and while looking for pineapple recipes that are off the beaten path, I came across this mouthwatering recipe for Pineapple Loaf with Lime Glaze posted by Ceecee on her Within the Kitchen blog. She used fresh pineapple and suggests adding cherries to the mix. Yum! (via TasteSpotting)
Kristen Rask’s celebratory birthday Johnny Depp craft roundup made my day today, since it contained this adorable plush from Pirates of the Caribbean by Jilly Lovett.
In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus mainly on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange, or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your […]
