By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics Back in March, this column showed a 3D Hilbert curve made of 64 PVC plumbing elbows arranged in a 4x4x4 cube. Chaim Goodman-Strauss has since outdone himself with an 8x8x8 cube of 512 steel elbows that he made with Eugene Sargent: It is springy, but strong enough […]
This belt from 686 packs driver bits and turns 8, 10 and 11mm hex bolts. Maker fashion? [Via Core77]
The exhibition Opera Mecatronica is on show in Reaktor 1 at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, where Ã…sa and Carl Unander-Ââ€Scharin present eight mecatronical opera and dance works. The exhibition room is a unique 13000 m3 space, 35 meters below earth which was Sweden’s first nuclear reactor, designed for scientific research, built in […]
Usually Lego is a hobby unto itself. But what I really like are projects where the Lego is the means, not the end, where the project succeeded because there was this neato prototyping material lying around. Here are some good one pulled from the cobweb-strewn archives of Make: Online. #10 Lego Letterpress #9 LEGO Swimming […]
Here’s a special roundup of our delicious Thanksgiving recipes in one handy place! I will continue to update this page as we launch new recipes related to Thanksgiving this month so feel free to bookmark and check back. You can also browse through our CRAFT recipes archive for more cooking inspiration. Thanksgiving Recipes How-To: Brine […]
calculus-book-cover.jpgMy buddy Trent Johnson, who works for AMD here in Austin, made this beautiful object. I was standing awkwardly in the corner at his birthday party last weekend, trying to remember how to interact with flesh-and-blood people on a face-to-face basis, when I looked down and saw it leaning against the wall next to me. And I immediately recognized it from the cover of my college calculus text, from the flyleaf of which I now quote:
Need to go work on this now… Via Zakka Life
