Making Makers — Real Tools for Kids
Recently, while looking online for woodworking tools appropriately sized for my preschool daughter, I was intrigued by one kit that promised “real” construction play. Real: yes. Realistic: no.
Year: 2012
Made On Earth — DIY Segway
Mechanical engineering student Charles Guan built a homemade Segway, called the Segfault, with some rather impressive geek cred. It uses absolutely no software, microprocessors, or other digital logic.
Made On Earth — Gravity Harps for Björk
I had tried to stop making musical machines but kept getting offers I couldn’t refuse. I thought I’d quit this crazy business if I could just pull off one last job — the big one. Then I met Björk at the MIT Media Lab. She needed some musical robots. This was big.
Made On Earth — Solar Dune Buggy
Brothers Michael and Kenny Ham have a goal: to create cheap electric vehicles that get people interested in renewable energy. In 2009, they built Three-Wheeled Electric Alternative by KinAestheticWind (TWEAK), a solar-powered three-wheeler.
Made On Earth — Pipe Dreams
In a public park near the German city of Essen, on redeveloped industrial land about 30 miles east of the Dutch border, there is a very unusual hotel.
Double-Dose Birthday Invites
Lia Cecaci of I Love that Glove offers up this guest post on papersnitch on how to make not one, BUT TWO, festive birthday invites. So colorful!
Made On Earth — Dead Laptops
Chicago-based artist Michael Dinges’ work is reminiscent of scrimshaw and trench art. For the uninitiated, scrimshaw began in the 18th century, when sailors started carving designs into teeth, bones, and tusks. Trench art involved decorating spent artillery shell and bullet casings to create ornamental items.
