For our second project in the Make It Last Build Series, we’re constructing a robotic plant. This week, we’re going to build an extendable stem for our plant from a tape measure, and mount it inside of the flower pot. Combined with the plant brain we built last time, we’re well on our way to […]
The other day, I bumped into these interesting (but sold out) “trading cards” from mysterious and delightful Imaginary Foundation. I immediately did a web search and found a remaining set ($18) at an e-tailer (they only had one deck left). They came today, and they’re really nice. It’s a shame they aren’t selling them anymore. […]
Dirk Vander Kooij is taking 3d printing to a whole new scale with his series of chairs made from recycled fridge plastic.
With this drawing machine by Joseph L. Griffiths, you can turn your peddling into art!
Sean @ Make: Online writes: Dominic Wilcox wants ยฃ159 for his 2002 piece War Bowl, which may make some amount of sense since Wilcox is a fairly well-established “name” artist, and the piece itself has been exhibited in various fancy places. Still, you can make your own version by partially melting a bunch of army […]
Today’s Maker Shed Deal of the Day is great for anyone who wants to get started with soft circuits. Buy a copy of Fashioning Technology by Syuzi Pakhchyan and get a Salt ‘n Peanut soft circuit kit free!
I’m digging this Israeli military robo-snake(!) of which each segment packs its own power supply, sensors, actuators, and microcontrollers. Looks like the business end has a camera ringed with IR LEDs. (See the snake in action in this video.) [Via Dvice] More: Modular snake robots Amphibious snake-like robot “ACM-R5” Swimming robot snake
