Year: 2010

Maker Birthdays: Leonardo da Vinci

Maker Birthdays: Leonardo da Vinci

Born on this date in 1452 in Tuscany, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Wikipedia) is the original “Renaissance Man,” and thus near and dear to all our hearts here at MAKE. By the time he died in 1512, aged 67 years, his achievements had established him, arguably, as the most diversely talented human being who ever lived: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Oh, and namesake of a very famous turtle.

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Ode to Betty White Cards

These Betty White cards from Vickie Howell are fun, and I love Vickie’s explination of why she was inspired to make them. There’s something about Betty’s continued relevance, cutting wit and awe-inspiring stamina that just makes me proud to be a woman. It’s hard not to smile at age 36 knowing that if I follow […]

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Vegetable synth

It uses 12 nails in a wooden fruitbowl to sense the resistance between different fruits and vegetables. This then goes to an arduino mega and gets send to max/msp with the arduino2max patch. I then used some low frequency oscilators and a heavy subwoofer for that real body feel.

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Some CoasterBot inspiration

Some CoasterBot inspiration

For those working on the Make: Robot Build, I thought you might get some inspiration from this cylindrical robot, just posted to Let’s Make Robots. It basically uses a plastic skin on the outside to create a bumpable surface. It’s not actually made of CDs, and it’s a little larger than CD-diameter, but most of […]

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