Join us Friday for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Makers from all over the world are converging on New York City for World Maker Faire New York this weekend at The New York Hall of Science in Queens. We’ll be announcing the winners of the first annual MAKE Magazine Industry Maker Awards and meet makers who’ll show at the Faire on a special Friday episode of Make: Live.
Last week, our weather here in Texas teased us a little by finally dipping just below 100 degrees for a few days. It almost made us want to pull out the jackets, but we’ve lived through enough years here to know that it won’t really cool down for at least another month or two. This […]
This excellent ball-flinging robot, by YouTube user LordLal0, plays fetch with a dog and even keeps track of the number of times it has flung the ball. As the caption says, this is what happens when an engineer owns a dog. [Thanks, Robert]
I did a double take when I walked by this photo-realistic machine-stitched image, by Carrol Shinn, before I realized that I was looking at a piece of fabric embroidered with thread. When a composition is ready, I scan it into the computer and transfer it to fabric. Then the piece is stitched with a basic […]
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, from Engineer Eiki Martinson of Lighthouse Point, FL. He writes: “This uses an Atmel Attiny12 to drive a single 5mm, 4-lead RGB LED…”
Our pal, Garth, of Extreme Craft had a most amazing garage sale score this weekend when he and his wife stumbled on this handmade Mr. T doll. The woman who made the doll had actually made three of them back in the day. They’ve been sitting in boxes for around twenty years, waiting for the […]
If you’re in town for World Maker Faire New York and have a little extra time to make your way to the Museum of Modern Art, I recommend checking out their Talk to Me exhibition, which features many of the projects we’ve posted about on this blog such as Boticalls and Cubelets.
