United in their desire to break the world record, approximately 50 line following robots gathered in Kansas City last Saturday to simultaneously demonstrate their prowess as following painted paths.
This is a twitter experiment enabling twitter users real time interaction with a physical art installation. The installation is a pyramid made from 5000 marbles, triggered by 5000 tweets. On its way to the pyramid each marble falls into a marble run filled with ramps, tunnels, pinwheels. You will see your marbles way through the […]
This free web-based tool generates your text as a fold-up extruded 3D origami model. It’s based on this paper from Erik Demaine, Martin Demaine, and Jason Ku at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. [via Boing Boing] More: Joel Cooper’s amazing origami masks plus grid tutorial Origami model + reflection = skull Gorgeous […]
And we’re back with our second installment of Your Comments, the weekly feature where we share our favorite comments from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. We hope you will find these little snippets informative, inspiring, and entertaining. So, without further ado… Your Comments! Simon regaled us with this anecdote after seeing the Beautiful […]
Here’s a beautiful way to work doilies into your decor from Under the Sycamore. [via Re-Nest]
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Dubious practicality aside, you can’t deny this zany hybrid pedicab turns heads. Suspend your disbelief for a moment and marvel at the dual-action windmill/rotating sign’s purported ability to use the wind to assist the rider. If anything, it should attract copious potential customers.
