CNCing a Stirling Engine 04/25/2012 “Movement is Everything” shows the CNCing of a Boehm Stirling engine. Nicely done and totally turns the creation of these...
Lego Ball Maze 04/25/2012 Jason, AKA Truedimensions, built this superb Lego Ball Maze that features exchangeable mazes, a travel lock, and a built-in ball...
Hackerspace Happenings for April 24 04/24/2012 Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at...
Festo ExoHand 04/24/2012 I don’t know what to say about this, beyond the fact that Festo can sure turn out a cool robot...
Arc-O-Matic, an Arduino-Controlled Art Bot 04/23/2012 Pete Prodoehl, inspired by this robot, created an art bot — the Arco-O-Matic — with servos hot glued to dowels,...
Costume Piece Molded from 3D-Printed Parts 04/21/2012 James Bruton of Southampton, UK, (whose DIY vacuum forming machine project was featured on the blog) wrote in to share...
Sweet CNC Build 04/20/2012 The Beatty family is building a lovely enclosure that will hold the computer and motor control boards for a CNC,...
Bronze-Casting Timelapse 04/19/2012 French artist René Zaki shot this great time-lapse video showing the process of creating a bronze bust from a lump...
One-Pallet Park Bench 04/19/2012 Julien Deswaef of Brussels, Belgium, designed this bench built from a shipping pallet. Get from a standard (Epal-Eur) pallet to...
Drawing Machine Drawing Drawing Machines 04/18/2012 Pablo Garcia of Pittsburgh, PA, used a CNC drawing machine to recreate illustrations of drawing machines of yore.