In the comments on yesterday’s piece about Bolt Depot’s poster of fasteners, a reader, JamesB, wrote: I would encourage budding young fabricators to also take a look at the bolt grade charts and get an inexpensive universal thread gauge. For found fasteners, the grade markings help differentiate metric from SAE, and the thread gauge helps […]
It’s that time again for the monthly Open MAKE/Young Makers program at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA. This month’s theme is Metal and Wire. The Featured Makers will be interviewed by MAKE’s Dale Dougherty in the McBean Theater between 1-2pm. They’ll be talking about their work and process, and taking questions from the audience. […]
MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Nick Raymond, engineering intern Autodesk recently sent Make: Labs a copy of their latest software, Inventor Publisher 2011. Earlier in the week, I had been using their 3D mechanical design program, […]
Look at how many pins there are in this in-progress piece of lace, all so close together! Jesse Breytenbach of Cape Town, South Africa, took these photos at Cape Lace Guild’s exhibition, in 2009. Below left: A piece based on a cross-section of a plant stem. Below right: A piece that was described as “modern” […]
CasaSugar showcases a tutorial by Emily of Jones Design Company who created a beautiful Moroccan wall stencil for her bathroom.
This codebox shows you how to create a physical zoetrope using Processing, a Kinect, and a laser cutter. The sketch will load in a movie recorded from the Kinect’s depth camera, use the Processing OpenCV library to turn that movie into a series of outlines, and save the outlines out in vector form as a […]
Wow, I hope a MAKE reader applies for this! Arduino has partnered with a university in the south of Switzerland on a master degree in Interaction Design. Massimo (Arduino team) will be heavily involved in the teaching and the students will have the chance to intern with them. The location is also great – lakes, […]
