Lego for Adults author Martin Martin Hüdepohl’s new book Badass LEGO® Guns walks you through illustrated step-by-step instructions to build five real working guns. These aren’t your average lego shooters, but rather highly stylized tactical “weaponry” rendered using LEGO Technic components.
Reminder: Today is the final day for the robot plant contest, so be sure to get your entry in by 11:59 PST.
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics For a true maker, any stock of unused office supplies is perceived as a challenge to make some kind of construction. Here is an icosahedrally symmetric geodesic sphere made from ninety paper fasteners. It was built by Rolando Pontalti of Trento, Italy, who also made last week’s […]
Awesome. Angry Birds in Lego by Tsang Yiu Keung. [via Sprite Stitch] Related: Angry Birds Cake
While gluing cubes together may seem like a terribly limited method of building 3D models, their software is easy to use and some types of parts–like puzzles and puzzle pieces–are well-suited to this kind of modeling. Shown uppermost is a marble maze that our own Matt Mets produced with 3DTin and printed on a MakerBot. For their part, MakerBot Industries seems to be excited about the concept: 3DTIn has just added a direct export-to-Thingiverse feature to their interface.
I’ll be in Kansas City, MO tomorrow to meet with folks about organizing a Maker Faire there this summer. (Make:KC organized a Mini Maker Faire last summer.) Sandy Clark, a Missourian (“The Show Me State”), sent me a note recalling his 2006 visit to the first Maker Faire in San Mateo, CA. I live in […]
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Shoe Improvement by elaposata, Ham Solo in Candybaronite by booturtle, and Around the Horn by Peggy Dembicer.
