Month: January 2013

Oh Martha, apple roses? How incredible delectable and adorable! It is projects like this that make you, Martha Freaking Stewart, the apple of all of this crafter’s eyes

Ping Fu is the founder of 3D software pioneer Geomagic and a true believer in the transformative power of 3D technology. 3D Systems acquired Geomagic in December and now Ping serves as the conglomerate’s chief strategy officer. This month, Ping published Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds, a powerful, deeply personal memoir that chronicles her life in China as a victim of Mao’s “Cultural Revolution,” a U.S. immigrant, and later a successful entrepreneur, visionary, and technology advisor to President Obama. It’s an inspiring, moving book about personal resilience, the value of vulnerability, and the power of making that deserves a wide audience.

A look at how the filmmakers behind Shugo Tokumaru’s animated video “Katachi” leveraged a CNC router to generate a super cool, stop-motion viral hit.

UK-based makers combine their passions for industrial design, coffee, and bicycles into the Velopresso, a pedal-powered espresso machine that generates no electricity, no motor noise, and is capable of hauling around 22 litres of water and 12-16 litres of milk.

Which “big game” are you watching this weekend?

Dillon Hodapp of 1.21 Jigawatts (who also created the DIY Bike Welding Rig) wrote in to share his Bowling Lane Table project: I recently moved into my first house and was in need of a dining room table. I saw a picture of a table that used an old section of bowling lane for its […]

We’re big fans of unlocking scientific research from being performed exclusively in traditional research institutions and putting it in the hands of citizen scientists, so we’re intrigued by the uBiome project. In a nutshell, “uBiome is a citizen science project that allows the public access to cutting edge sequencing technology to understand their health through […]