Month: August 2014

In response to potters who’ve said that “porcelain clay is like cream cheese” when it gets too wet, Yoko Sekino-Bové conducted a little experiment.

  Amazon launched a 3D Printing Store a few months ago, but only recently have they been promoting the Creative Expressions department, which encourages customers to adjust the parameters of the 3D printed items they order. Just move the sliders, above, and you can make that ring super big, more knotty, and silver instead of gold. This […]

It’s quite likely that most Raspberry Pis in the wild are running Raspbian, the stock operating system that’s based on the Debian distribution of Linux. And if you’ve gone through the Raspberry Pi NOOBs installation process, you’ll know that there are a few other choices for operating systems such as Arch, Pidora, and RISC OS. […]

A tiny postal service has been quietly operating out of a knothole in a tree along a hiking trail in the hills above Berkley since last December, but now, the creators of “The World’s Smallest Post Office” want to announce its secret location!

Is Maker Faire the perfect replacement for World’s Fair? We certainly think so.

As you may recall, back in November Stratasys (the company that owns MakerBot) sued Microboards Technology, LLC (the company that makes the Afinia desktop 3D printer) for patent infringement. Specifically, Stratasys accused Afinia of violating four of its patents. This case is important beyond the fates of Stratasys and Afinia because the Stratasys patents could […]

Nirvana’s Nevermind has one of the most iconic album covers of the 90s, and now it has officially been commemorated in cross-stitch by infamous embroiderer Jamie “Mr X Stitch” Chalmers.