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Welcome to the fifty-third installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Makezine, our Facebook page, and Twitter.
Welcome to the fifty-third installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Makezine, our Facebook page, and Twitter.
New uses for existing materials can fuel hardware innovation. Such was the case for Anton Willis who after moving to a San Francisco apartment had to put his beloved kayak into storage. No room for big toys. By coincidence around that same time he met Robert Lang, a physicist and renowned origami expert. The ideas of kayaks and origami fused in Anton’s mind and lead him on a journey that resulted in the Oru, an innovative folding kayak.
As a devoted flea market hunter, I am always on the lookout for creative ways to display my finds. I like the bright pop of color in these DIY triangle shelves. They’d be perfect to display a tiny collection (or heck, just as decoration in and of themselves!).
Add a strand of outdoor bunting to your holiday decor!
Check out our fine selection of robots and robot accessories in the Maker Shed.
This full-size Ironman was made by Yihung Kuo. It’s made almost entirely from cardboard and Makedo building fasteners. The idea of making an Ironman came from my 3 kids… I wanted to make them a toy suit for role-play and Halloween, but ended up making a model my own size. In any case, they had fun […]
Anika‘s clever Mindstorms robot scans colors on the bottom of an LP. Matthias Paul Scholz of the NXT Step Blog helped with the software. [via The NXT Step]