Month: July 2011

Win a Copy of Robot Builder’s Bonanza

Win a Copy of Robot Builder’s Bonanza

Gordon McComb is helping us out on the site this month in support of the release of MAKE Volume 27, our latest robotics issue, and for our monthly Robotics theme here online. Gordon has also just release the fourth edition of his groundbreaking book, Robot Builder’s Bonanza. The first edition of this book was released in 1987 and pretty much launched the hobby robotics field. This was the book that got me into robotics, which lead me into electronics (and Forrest Mims’ book), hardware hacking, and most of my high-tech making interests.

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Stunning Collection of Notes and Lists

Salon.com has a post up from Imprint, detailing some of the outstanding pieces in the Morgan Library and Museum’s current show, “Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations.” I will confess to being a compulsive note scribbler. Sometimes they help me stay organized and on track, but mostly they just serve as […]

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Sunprint Wedding Cake

We’ve talked about how to make sunprints on paper here before. But this sunprint wedding cake from Once Wed is absolutely stunning. To be fair, though, it’s not an actual sunprint – the chemicals involved would of course be inedible. Instead, it’s blue coloring airbrushed over foliage for the same effect. Could you imagine a […]

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Milwaukee Makers on Parade

Milwaukee Makers on Parade

Milwaukee Makerspace brought electric vehicles and floats to Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s South Shore Frolics parade. Milwaukee Makerspace member David Overbeck has loved Milwaukee’s South Shore Frolics Parade since he was a kid, and with the help of other makers, he led a group build of a 9 foot tall “Old Milwaukee Makerspace” beer can to appear […]

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