Hackerspace Happenings for April 11 04/11/2012 Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at...
DIY Portable Electronics Tool Kit 04/11/2012 Dustin White of the i3 Detroit hackerspace created this instructable on how to assemble your own electronics tool kit. Dustin...
World’s Largest Rube Goldberg Machine 04/10/2012 This 300-step Rube Goldberg Machine claims the world’s record: The Purdue Society of Professional Engineers team smashed its own world...
DIY Ice Sphere Maker 04/10/2012 Gordon Vizecky of Minneapolis, MN, machined this ice sphere mold in his shop as his first lathe project. Gordon’s video...
Lego Three Laws of Robotics 04/09/2012 AFOL Simon Primordial Greeble of Toronto, ON, built this sweet depiction of Asimov’s legendary Three Laws: 1: A robot may...
Patterned Concrete Tables 04/09/2012 Kami of Austin Tinkering School wrote in to share these cool concrete tables that her friend Elena Eidelberg created. She...
IDEO Make-a-Thon 04/06/2012 International “design and innovation consultancy” IDEO threw a cool-sounding hackathon: Originally we thought of doing a hackathon. Then we decided...
Never Stop Making 04/05/2012 Joey Johnston of Starkville, MS, wrote in with this well-done Lego model spelling out a worthy motto: Never Stop Making....
How To: Build a Dome out of Paper, Steel & Concrete 04/05/2012 Mikey Sklar of Truth or Consequences, NM, wrote this Instructable on building a dome out of paper, steel, and concrete:...
Jun Mitani’s Computer-Designed Origami 04/04/2012 I enjoyed this interview with Jun Mitani on the Creators Project. Mitani is an associate professor of Computer Science at...