Maker Faire New York: Interactive Severed Hand Plush Toy
Severed Hand Bop-It is an Arduin- controlled plush toy with morbidity to spare!
Month: September 2012
Paper Scrap Wall Art
As with most of Patricia Zapata’s designs, this paper scrap wall art tutorial couldn’t be simpler or more stunning. It’s worth doing some paper crafts just to end up with enough scraps to make this!
How-To: Polka Dot Bottles
I’m always looking for a better, easier way to achieve good project results, and the masking-tape-and-hole-punch technique in this polka dot bottles tutorial from Amanda at Ruffled is bordering on brilliant! If you’re looking to upgrade your painting skills, you’ll definitely want to check it out.
Hexayurt’s Vinay Gupta at the Athens Hackerspace
Vinay Gupta of the Hexayurt Project held a talk at the Athens (Greece) Hackerspace about DIY Civilization. (Full talk here.) Hexayurt is an open hardware house built in hundreds every year. We will consider materials supply chain, reuse, grid beam, planning and improvisation, nature, technology and lot of other things. Also, according to Jay Springett […]
Efficient Biohybrid Solar Cells with Spinach
A group from Vanderbilt University, lead by Professor David Cliffel, claims that a protein found in spinach, called PS1, when combined with silicon found in solar panels to form a biohybrid cell, end up being 2.5 times more efficient then cells lacking the protein.
Technological Mandala
Artist Leonardo Ulian made this delightful Technological Mandala from electronic components such as microchips and resistors. [via Lustik]
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
