Month: June 2010

Belvedere the butlerbot

Belvedere the butlerbot

Butlerbots are starting to finally become more popular, many built upon the iRobot Create platform. Such is the case with Belvedere, who cracks jokes, serves appetizers (and cake!) at parties, and is teaching one-year-old Ethan how to dance like a cylindrical robot with no rhythm. Belvedere – A Butler Robot

Sewn Soap Pouch

I’ve been doing a lot of digging in my garden lately, and my 14-month-old loves nothing better than digging right alongside. Getting the dirt off my hands at the end of the day is hard enough, but it’s almost impossible to clean up a wriggly toddler! I really like this sewn soap pouch how-to (try […]

“Cuban Polaroid” is ultra-low-tech camera, darkroom all in one

“Cuban Polaroid” is ultra-low-tech camera, darkroom all in one

It was a wooden box with the bellows and lens from a folding camera mounted at one end with a complete darkroom inside. Using photographic printing paper the photographer would expose a sheet of paper for the negative, develop, stop, and fix it inside the camera, then put a copy stand on the camera and photograph the negative (to obtain a positive), develop, stop, and fix, then wash the final print in a coffee can of water attached to his homemade tripod.

Call for Rocky Mountain Makers

We’re organizing a Mini Maker Faire on Saturday, July 10th in Aspen, Colorado in association with the Aspen Ideas Festival. We’ll be at the base of the ski lift in Gondola Plaza from 10am to 3pm. We’re organizing Make activities and fun things to do for families. We are planning for about a dozen makers […]