Ian from Dangerous prototypes has posted up some thoughts on my article “The {Unspoken} Rules of Open Source Hardware”. His post “A culture of ethics in open source hardware?” has some really good things from the point of view of someone who makes a living designing, supporting and shipping open-source hardware. Check it out!
Our very own John Baichtal has written a wonderful guide to hackerspaces and 24 cool projects that their members have produced. You will find no better Virgil to guide you through the realm of DIWO (Do It With Others) than “nerdyjb.”
If you like giant machines—and who really doesn’t?—don’t miss Tim Heffernan’s wonderful new feature over at Boing Boing: The magnificent machine pictured above is a closed-die forging press, one of the biggest in the world. (For reference, check out the men standing at its foot, down there on the left.) It and nine other huge […]
Mark “352K” Rober, who created the Gaping Hole in Torso Halloween costume, came up with a clever way to shoot video at the zoo. He drilled a hole in a mirror so he could intrigue zoo animals with their own faces, while simultaneously shooting video through the drill hole.
Do you ever sit in your cube, listening to the low rumble of keyboards clacking away in the distance, wondering how you can take your geek cred to the next level? Well, I’m pretty sure that a handmade TARDIS phone charging station would do the trick!
InBook iPhone Charging Docks Hello Crafters! It’s time to introduce a new chapter of CRAFT. I’ve had a wonderful time being the editor of CRAFT – it’s been such a thrill working every day with amazing crafters who consistently bring fresh awe-inspiring ways of creating to the world of crafting. However, I’m now going to […]
Martin Klimas places paint upon a translucent material, underneath which is a speaker. When music is played, the carefully selected mixtures of paint explode from the surface, reaching upward and intertwining. Klimas captures these events photographically and mates each photo to the piece of music that created it (the one below is Kraftwerk’s “Transistor”).
