Rapid assembly using fabbed materials 08/14/2010 You printed some fabjects with your 3D printer, now what? Ph.D student Jon Hiller and professor Hod Lipson of the...
Powered inline skates 08/14/2010 RazErBlades: Motor-assisted inline skates controlled by a force-sensing throttle built into a wrist guard. Vehicle: Electric inline skate Drivetrain: 2...
Dennis Hong’s 7 species of robot 08/14/2010 TEDxNASA speaker and Virginia Tech professor Dennis Hong describes the robots that he and his students are working on. [Via...
Vote for the Ponoko/Sparkfun/GeekDad contest winner 08/13/2010 Entries are now closed for our design competition in association with Ponoko and Sparkfun, but the competition isn’t over yet!...
Hand-cranked spider automaton 08/13/2010 This sculpture was created by artist Pete Simpson from the U.K. Most of his work seems to fall into the...
Lego “Empire Strikes Back” chess set 08/13/2010 Brandon Griffith of Los Angeles’ Lego User Group LUGOLA built this mind-boggling Lego chess set with the pieces depicting characters...
Mini arcade machine 08/13/2010 Marcelo Souza of São Paulo, Brazil, dropped us a note to share his cool tabletop arcade machine emulator. I’ve spent...
Make and Mend: Platform21’s repair manifesto 08/13/2010 I found this cool manifesto while digging through the dusty shelves of the MAKE Flickr pool, and thought it was...
How-To: Homebrew Club-Mate (from MAKE Volume 23) 08/12/2010 If you aren’t savvy to the phenomenon that is Club-Mate, it’s a caffeinated tea beverage brewed in Germany that’s been...
X-wing mailbox 08/12/2010 Craig Smith, whose clever projects have been featured in MAKE and Make: Online a bunch of times (see links below)...
