New in the Maker Shed: IOIO for Android
We’ve had Making Android Accessories with IOIO in the Maker Shed for a while now and now we have the IOIO for Android to accompany it. Check out this amazing little device!
Month: June 2012
Maker Faire — A Poem
A poem about Maker Faire, by 11-year-old Djuna Barricklow.
The Gloves of Sanquhar
Aritst Sally Hogarth will be exhibiting a charming new video at an annual arts and crafts festival in Scotland called Spring Fling. Visitors will be able to watch the video, which is about the traditional knitted gloves from a small Scottish mining town called Sanquhar, by scanning knitted QR codes which will link them to […]
Choosing Fasteners for Fused Filament Parts
I Heart Robotics is running a cool series of posts testing the merits and failure modes of various types of threaded fasteners in 3D-printed plastic parts. So far they’ve hit wood screws, self-tapping plastic screws, and a special type of melt-in threaded insert for machine screws I’d never seen before. Check it out!
Capture 3D Objects with 123D Catch App
If you’ve got an iPad with a camera, you can now use it to capture 3D objects using Autodesk’s new 123D Catch app for the iPad. Similar to the desktop software of the same name, you take a series of photographs of an object or setting and upload them to a server. The service will then compile a fully textured 3D model for display and manipulation.
