Whats more hardcore than making your own synthetic aperture radar system? How about teaching a class how to build their own using some breadboardable electronics, empty coffee cans, and a spare laptop? That’s exactly what radio whiz Greg Charvat did this semester at MIT, and you can see some of the results that students are […]
Joris Peels, of i.materialse, has a curious hobby he calls “Skynet search.” He goes around the internets looking for evidence of the real-world emergence of Skynet. He posted this item about RoboEarth to his blog. RoboEarth is an attempt at creating a sort of Google Earth/Internet for robots, a place where standardized navigation and object […]
The “Skin Gun”. A simple idea backed by stem cell research. It’s a spray gun that sprays skin. It uses your own cells, and the new skin is sprayed on – within a few *days* it’s completely healed. Still experimental, very promising. So first up, medical advances and within 10 years graffiti artists will be […]
Sew Weekly has a project that will boldly put you in the Valentine’s Day spirit. She shows you how to make a conversation heart facinator and brooch. I think this project would be also super cute for little girls to wear.
“His works look like randomly-generated parts for high-performance machines that don’t work in our universe.”
This month, for the Make: Skill Set theme, we’re going to be covering woodworking. We’re excited. While many of us are more than comfortable dramatically brandishing a soldering iron, we’re far less confident in firing up a skill saw. We’ve invited a number of woodworking pros and hobbyists to come over and help us out. […]
As Ann Martin of All Things Paper pointed out in her tweet, “Quilling is not all hearts and flowers.” Indeed. She shared this stunning piece of quilled artwork from Sarah Yakawonis, who used quilling to depict the veins of the head. The details are fascinating, and the additional close-up pictures on her web site are […]
