Michal Zalewski created this really great Useless Machine — which counts the number of times it has been triggered — and Michal also throws down some back-story about UMs that I didn’t know about. The original Ultimate Machine is famously attributed to Claude Elwood Shannon, one of the fathers of modern computing. In “Voice Across […]
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Giant taco by Bonnie Boogaard, embroidered boots by doe-c-doe, Mounting rubber stamps by L’Accent Nou, and Zombie Sweater by lzyber.
Tiffany shares with us her Thanksgiving kids craft to make these colorful pinecone turkeys. It’s a great project for kids to make on Thanksgiving in the day to keep them busy while you cook. Fun decor for the kids table!
MakerBot Thing-o-Matic I make CG animated movies by day and electro-mechanical contraptions by night. I split my time between the virtual and real worlds of 3D. So I’m really excited about the collision of these two worlds happening in the realm of 3D printing and fabrication. But it’s not just me, there’s a rapidly growing […]
Rodney Brooks (born December 30, 1954, in Adelaide, Australia) has had an impact on robotics and AI matched by few. And there is probably no one who’s had a bigger impact on viable commercial robotics. In the 1970s, when everybody else was obsessed with complex AI-driven, map-building robots, Brooks shocked the AI community by creating […]
Stewart Brand changed my life. Several times. When I was 16 years old, I got a copy of the Whole Earth Catalog and I was never the same. Through it, I discovered Buckminster Fuller, Gregory Bateson, whole systems thinking, nomadics, and the general, revolutionary notion (now commonplace in our wired info-age) that an individual could […]
Years ago, I published an art and early cyberculture zine, called Going Gaga. I did an issue devoted to doodling. I’m fascinated by doodles, scribbles, “crazy walls” (those string-connected, associative wall collages that Hollywood serial killers and the cops who pursue them all seem to need), and all forms of loose-brained/non-linear thinking. The very precise […]
