The team at Spinbots is offering young makers the opportunity to create easily reconfigurable marker bots that teach the principles of design in a super fun hands-on way. While I was there, one young boy modded his bot to only have two marker legs, and everyone looked on in wonder at the cool design his […]
MakerBot’s Robot Petting Zoo shows that 3D printing enables you to design and engineer things much more interesting than some of the standard Hello World tchotchke. This collection of Arduino-controlled 3d printed robots was a big hit.
Patrick Hood-Daniel was designing and hand assembling surface mounted circuit boards for his CNC machines at buildyourcnc.com. Working with those little tweezers gets old pretty quick; it seems only natural that he would design a pick and place machine to replace him and supplement his line of DIY machines.
DIY drones are the rage! Chris flew a quadcopter off the stage, and entertained droves of questions from how much weight the copters can carry, to FAA regulations, and announced that they would have a new ARM-based APM (Ardu Pilot Mega) by Maker Faire New York.
Swing by the South Lot and watch the Death Defying Figure 8 Pedal Cars compete! An array of Cycle Kart-inspired pedal-powered contraptions racing each other – they make the perfect GIF!
Here are some cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr pool this week: Moss and deers ♥, by ::sämyii:: Finger Monsters!, by La Société des Monstres Célèbres bird cottage, by so NOT cool quilting book- pg3, by fikidoll Ectoplasm, by hine
It’s been a pleasure to watch the gasifier technology from ALL Power Labs improve over the years as they bring each new version of their generator to Maker Faire. What began as a cobbled-together contraption charred around the edges, later became a clean-burning Gasifier Experimenter Kit, and is now a full-fledged downdraft gasifier that generates […]
