After mulling it over for several hours, crunching the numbers, and running an exhaustive cost-benefit analysis, I am forced to conclude that the amount of serious demolition, vehicle extraction, and/or fire-fighting work I perform under explosive-atmosphere conditions, in an average workday, does not justify the expense of this gorgeous hand axe, made of non-sparking beryllium copper alloy, from NGK Berylco of Sweetwater, Tennessee. But, damn, I tried.
I know we’re past Easter now, but I couldn’t help but share these awesome Pantone Easter Eggs from Jessica of How About Orange. File this away for next year, folks. They’ll be the hit of the designer’s Easter basket! Read how Jessica created them over on her blog. And yes, I’m such a nerd that […]
SMS text messaging is a versatile way to communicate. There doesn’t even have to be a human on the other side for a message to be useful. You can just as easily send a text to a robot as to a friend. That must have been what cloud texting provider Zipwhip were thinking when they built their textable automated expresso machine.
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
Happy Easter from CRAFT! Here are some cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week: This Year’s Easter Cookies, by SweetSugarBelle Group photo, by pilli pilli Easter Bunny Auditions, by TADA’s Revolution happy little egg cups, by jessica wilson {jek in the box} the final four, by judibird
Kevin had the beginnings of a homebrew elevator in his house. The cab was lifted and lowered by a hydraulic forklift ram, but it didn’t have the right logic circuits to make it work like an elevator does. He approached Michael, who helped him plan and install the control system for it.
This past Tuesday, April 3, MUGNY held their “MakerBot vs the Easter Bunny” meetup, which featured chocolate molds, a demo of some printed artifacts scanned from originals using Autodesk’s free 123D Catch, an intro to MakerBot’s newly launched Design Studio team, and overview of home pewtering and casting, and a talk from Annelise, producer and […]
