One of the most popular demos at the Craft booth at World Maker Faire New York last fall was Brett Bara’s Crochet Robots (Crobots). Their cute dangly legs and metal bits and bobbins and simple construction made them huge crowd-pleasers. She’s added the pattern to her web site now, so if you weren’t able to […]
Wireless technology has transformed many aspects of our world, but it wasn’t until now that it has had an impact on falling dominoes. In this project by Jarashi Suki and the IAMAS Ubiquitous Interaction Research Group, each electronic domino is assigned a number and after it topples, it will wirelessly trigger the next numbered domino […]
Via Peter Kirn’s Create Digital Motion comes this work from artist Mauritius Seeger, using a Kinect to “scratch” video using proximity info. Mauritius write: I use modul8 with a midi controller and have kind of given up on video scratching because it’s so bad in software when i last tried it ( with modul8) and […]
This playroom makeover is both a crafter’s and a kid’s dream. The handpainted scene includes an aiport landing strip, small town, roads, a lake, trees, and mountain waterfall. See how Roots & Wings created this playroom makeover for under $100 in just one weekend!
There are a wealth of websites that assist and promote outside the classroom Photo: PA We’ve been having quite a day. First Dale’s excellent TED talk hit the TED site, then we read Mark Sigal’s blog piece about the future of trade shows (where he cites Maker Faire as an example of the future of […]
Sean Ragan had previously blogged a video of this cool robot. Now, courtesy of the MAKE Flickr pool, we see some beauty shots. This clever robot, built by Steve Norris, picks up small objects within a gripper consisting of a balloon filled with coffee grounds. I constructed my own version of the Cornell University Universal […]
There are about three weeks left for you to submit your solution for the MakeShift featured in MAKE Volume 24. Here’s the challenge: Hawk Rescue! The Scenario: You’re one of a group of eight intrepid girl scouts, all 11 or 12 years old, who are off on their own for a hike in a mountain […]
