My friend Tania Prosser is one of the most diligent upcycling crafters I know. She saves all the tiny pieces of ribbon to make barrettes, and reuses fabric scraps and buttons with great success in the form of headbands and ponytail holders. I love it when accessories bring a smile to my face when I […]
We’ve featured a lot of cool paper flowers here on the blog, but the scale of these giant ones from Sara of Creative Jewish Mom really makes them stand out. She has a brilliant tip for hitting the recycling bin for pattern-making material, too. I love the way they turned out! They would make quite […]
In this weeks episode of The Latest in Hobby Robotics, Andrew and Frits are looking at some cool designs for home made robots. Here are links related to the show: Chris The Carpenters Steampunk robot Wikipedia on steampunk Robot 2 by Axbri Ant’s robots PetToyBot by mrkiss Learn how to make a robot Subscribe to […]
Want to mix a bit of physical computing into your Google Voice Search? Breakfast NY has built an open source, Arduino-compatible dev board to do just that. With Google announcing the launch of Voice Search for desktop, we couldnโt help thinking that there was even more fun to be had with talking to a computer. […]
Make: Live episode 11 is all about photography and video. We take you on a behind-the-scenes tour and show how we put together Make: Live. Matt Griffin from MakerBot shows us how they make timelapse movies of 3D printers doing their thing. Catch up on video and notes from the show here. Subscribe to the […]
Tracy Widdess knitted this Bender balaclava along with other quirky masks inspired by horror and science fiction. It just makes sense to commit crimes in this.
This robot was designed, manufactured and programmed for a design competition (as part of the curriculum) held amongst first year Mechanical Engineering students at Delft university of Technology. The goal was to create a robot that could perform a delivery as quickly as possible, while also keeping as much as possible of the delivery on […]
