Tiffany of Art Food and Motherhood shows you how you can decoupage a kid’s art table with vintage book images. Isn’t it cute? It’s the perfect little table for tea parties too. I love that her 4 year old daughter helped her with the project too!
Steve Norris of Boston, MA, wrote in with his latest project: a robot that’ll bring you a beer. The Beverage Delivery System (BDS) is an ambitious project of mine to create a fully automated inter-home delivery system. Anyone who has built a robot has, at one point or another, been asked the question “but can […]
Riley Porter’s sweet plotter is built out of Contraptor beams and lasercut panels, and uses a custom stepper controller called TinyG that he created with maker Alden Hart. Next: can haz CNC?
Antique computers run the world.
Following in the footsteps of Makerbeam, an open-source building set which got its funding on Kickstarter, and loom designers OSLoom, which got funded the same way, we have Lasersaur, a project to make an affordable laser cutter and then release the specs so that anyone can build one or improve on the design. Here’s the […]
This excellent chess set definitely wins points for beauty. My dad taught me how to make, create, design, build, program, and solder from a young age. This year I finally remembered that parents don’t like their children to buy them expensive things, they like their children to build them things. And you could end up […]
This fascinating map is full of coded symbols: Leopold was elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1658, a title that had been in his Habsburg family for centuries. However, realising the increasing weakness of this institution (2), Leopold instead shifted his political energy to the consolidation of his Austrian, Hungarian and Bohemian dynastic territories. Vienna was […]
