Makerbot’s Bre Pettis Chats with MAKE’s Mark Frauenfelder
MAKE magazine Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder interviews MakerBot co-founder (and MAKE alum) Bre Pettis about 3D printing, scanning, and how exiciting it is to be a maker right now.
Month: September 2013
Knitted Accordion
Katie Boyette of Caffaknitted created this marvelous knitted accordion.
Transforming a School Library Into a Makerspace
Students at Grand Center Arts Academy (GCAA), a public charter school in St. Louis, have arrived to find a portion of their library transformed into a makerspace.
How-To: Make a Paper Airplane fly Forever
Take your paper airplane skills up a notch with this incredible trick to make your airplane fly forever using the heat of an electric stove!
How-To: Shakeable Confetti Wrapping Paper
Make your own colorful shakeable confetti wrapping paper!
Maker Faire Loves Robots
Maker Faire loves robots. Don’t you? Here are just a fraction of the robotic exhibits, presenters and performers at World Maker Faire 2013. Robots for kids! Aerial Drones, Robotic Art, Humanoid Robots, and more.
3D-Body Scanning With Joey Hudy
Joey Hudy returns to Maker Faire to present his senior project at ASU-HYSA: a full-body 3D scanner. It works by rotating a person on a small wooden platform while a stepper motor raises and lowers a PrimeSense kinect clone so it can scan your entire body using Skanect software. It generates a array of dots and then creates the mesh from the dots.
