International “design and innovation consultancy” IDEO threw a cool-sounding hackathon: Originally we thought of doing a hackathon. Then we decided to push the concept to its next iteration. How could we bring together multidisciplinary weekend project teams—not just software engineers and digital designers, but also industrial designers, architects, and problem solvers from different backgrounds? Could […]
Our maker this week is Ayah Bdeir, the founder and lead engineer of littleBits, an open source library of electronic modules that snap together with magnets and makes it fun and easy to make interactive electronic projects.
Here is a sampler platter, culled from the vast array of project tutorials available over on Make: Projects. Help Make: Projects grow by adding your own tutorials. Take a Hidden Picture Make: Projects user kyleclements details how he built a piece of artwork that is seemingly a blank canvas, but actually, there are IR LEDs […]
John over at MAKE posted these amazing images of computer-designed origami from an interview with Jun Mitani by the Creator’s Project. You can see more images of Mitani’s work on his Flickr photostream.
This video has been released to promote a new university research initiative between MIT, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania aiming to develop a rapid manufacturing system for one-off problem-solving robots. Seems like an ambitious program, to me, but I like the idea of using fold-up papercraft chassis parts for prototyping or short operational life designs.
Here is a great article from Open Music Labs which details the teardown and design of an old school MIDI keyboard.
Wanna shoot fireballs from the palm of your hand? Of course you do. When Joel Johnson set out to fashion his own fireball shooter, he was intent on making one with a minimum of parts that was small enough to be concealed in his hand. He shared his “Orpheus Shooter” build with us back in […]
