The awesome automata artist Dug North does a quarterly column, “Dug’s Automata Tips, Techniques and Tricks,” on the Cabaret Mechanical Theater website. His latest installment outlines two different methods for making paper patterns for pinwheel gears. Pinwheel gears are relatively easy and fun to make and have various applications, such as above where they’re used […]
Designer Sarah Goodwin shares how she pieced together a one-of-a-kind lamp base from her collection of tea cups, saucers and plates over on Design*Sponge.
We had two giveaways close last night. In the Make: Arduino Getting Started with Arduino Kit giveaway, the winner is: Fractal LLC Thanks to all who participated (we had over 600 entries) and thanks to Maker Shed for providing this great kit. In the Mechanics Skill Set giveaway of Dustyn Roberts’ Making Things Move, the […]
A weekly roundup of craft fairs and a call for vendors.
Yuma Fujimaki is certainly not the first person to make jewelry from scrap electronics components, but IMHO he has done a better job of it than most. [via adafruit]
After your St. Patrick’s Day feast, consider making this Reuben-inspired panini to use up some of your corned beef leftovers.
This game, designed by Emilie Tappolet, Raphaël Munoz and Maria Beltran, involves manipulating physical cubes as if they were game controllers. Geek Run is a collaborative game prototype played with cubes and a Kinect controller programed with open frameworks and presented at the LIFT11 conferences. By moving cubes on the floor in front of the […]
