Uber-maker Niklas Roy (see all his MAKE mentions) built this excellent pen plotter out of Finnish cardboard, welding rod, rubber bands, tape, and glue. I especially love the all-cardboard interface! When I gave a workshop at the School of Art and Design in Offenbach about building digital devices out of cardboard, the students asked me […]
Is your ideal world pretty, perfumed, and squeaky clean? Make that dream a reality with a batch of homemade lavender soap!
I was surprised when I met Anthony for the first time at the 2012 Barbot competition in San Francisco. This guy was part of the Lego Mindstorm team. How cool is that! Not only does he know how to make cool stuff with Legos, but he actually makes Legos. I appreciated the use of not one, but two Mindstorms for the TipsyBot that Anthony built. Iโm not sure it made my drink taste any better, but it was pretty fun to see.
This epic Star Wars Baby Mobile was created by needle-felt crafter Andrea Burnett.
When the Microsoft Kinect game controller came onto the scene in 2010, the maker community immediately saw its potential as an input device for 3D scanning, gestural input, and spacial recognition. Initially, Microsoft didn’t like the idea of people hacking their product, but it didn’t stop the most eager among us from successfully cracking the […]
Inventor Niklas Roy created this incredible working plotting machine from cardboard!
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
