At last count, 625 makers have decided to create a bot for our awesome Robot Build, and I’m one of them! My concept is a bristlebot built with four toothbrushes and a mini CD. I bought some wee vibration motors, one for each brush, and right now, I’m trying to figure out a bunch of […]
Yesterday was ANZAC day, which is the Australia and New Zealand equivalent of our Memorial Day. (ANZAC stands for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps.) ANZAC biscuits are a classic cookie that myth associates with World War I (they’re still getting over Gallipoli, and rightly so). My husband is Australian, so of course I wanted […]
That’s perhaps a bit unfair, as the PET from which designocrat Marcel Wanders’ prototype “Sparkle” chair is made may well come at least partly from recycled sources, for all I know. What I should say, really, is that the chair suggests direct recycling without actually doing so. It looks like it’s made from actual bottle parts, even though it isn’t. Which is a rather strange kind of eco-marketing, IMHO. Still, I like it as a purely aesthetic object. Is it because I’ve been programmed to desire bottled water, and thus respond favorably to an object that mimics its form even in a totally irrational way?
The enviable Luxirare — killer clothes and fine cuisine — shares these wonderful photos from making Apple Napoleon (swoon). Luxirare writes: Prepare everything before hand. I eat apple napoleon A LOT so I always take one day out of the week to prepare my phyllo dough and sliced apples. I take them out whenever I […]
Maker Faire veterens ArcAttack recently persuaded Grant Imahara to enjoy one of their really high-voltage tunes from within an oh-so-cozy Faraday cage – looks like good times to me! [Thanks, Joe!] More: Happy Birthday Tesla – from ArcAttack (and MAKE too!) ArcAttack performs the theme from Doctor Who Talking gear with ArcAttack
Bdale Garbee and Keith Packard are developing a solid-looking open source telemetry system, that they call TeleMetrum.
By Diane Gilleland With less than a yard of oilcloth and some simple sewing, you can have a pretty way to carry your trowel, cultivator, pruners, and gloves. And if it gets dirty in the garden, just hose it off and hang it up to dry.
