Pneubotics: Inflatable Robots
This inflatable robot by Otherlab weighs less than 70 pounds but can support up to 1,000 pounds with the help of inflatable actuators and pneumatic piping, according to Hizook. [Thanks, Travis!]
Year: 2011
Recipe: Flavored Coffee Syrups
Last week I got all excited about infused holiday liqueurs, and now I’m continuing the flavored drink love with a focus on coffee. Elsie from A Beautiful Mess shared her recipes for making vanilla, caramel, and raspberry coffee syrups, and they look fantastic! After checking out her blog, I suddenly find myself craving a delicious […]
Prototype Quick-Build, Low-Cost 3D Printer
Printrbot, just successfully crowd-funded by Lincoln, California resident Brook Drumm, bills itself as an all-in-one 3D printer kit that “can be assembled and printing in a couple of hours.” Hack a Day’s Brian Benchoff gives a cogent technical analysis. Apart from the Kickstarter itself, Mr. Drumm maintains a Flickr set, a Vimeo account, and a fledgling blog dedicated to the project.
Candy Sprinkles Art From Joel Brochu
I’m a big fan of nonpareils sprinkles on my cupcakes, but Joel Brochu is taking the treats to a whole new level in this portrait of a pup getting a bath. The piece includes 221,184 nonpareils sprinkles that are painstakingly placed using jewelers tweezers. Only six colors of sprinkles were used in the picture, giving […]
Nook Tablet Teardown
Click and mortar giant Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet is a zippy update to the Nook Color “ebook reader”. The folks at iFixit recently tore one apart to get a closer look at the magic smoke that powers the HD streaming dynamo.
iShred: iPad Embedded Snowboard
Every Third Thursday the employees of Signal Snowboards get together to get creative with board design and materials, and generally hack on gear at the factory. Recently they laboriously toiled over one of the more creative snowboard designs I’ve seen: the iShred.
Layar Augmented Reality for MAKE Vol 28 (and How to Make Your Own)
[Video Link] I love the augmented reality content that Layar created for MAKE’s Toys & Games issue. And Gene Becker at Layar, who led this project, kindly wrote a how-to article about creating an augmented reality magazine cover. Read it after the jump. Augmented reality (AR) is a fun technology that overlays digital media onto […]
