Face it, you may never have all the tools you want or need. Some may be too big and heavy to fit inside your home or workspace, others too expensive or infrequently needed to make sense. Makerspaces, however, give makers access to those less-than-convenient tools to build projects that might otherwise be impossible.
I have a thing for low-tech robots, especially when they’re made from everyday stuff. The body of this new little robot bug from MIT and Harvard, described last week in the latest issue of Science, is made from a five-layer sandwich of copper traces, paper, and shape-memory polymer — the stuff you know as Shrinky […]
One weekend remains to see an exhibition of STEM + Arts = STEAM, at Arts Westchester in White Plains, NY. Even when this exhibition is over, look for more STEAM art in your town!
DIY ceramic 3D printer can be built on a budget with common and modified parts found on eBay and online retail stores.
Johnathan Keep’s Ceramic Delta 3D Printer in an Arduino SBC controls the show allowing users to create objects using clay.
With this remote kill switch, Jason Poel Smith shows how to build a transmitter to cut off the juice to any device from a distance.
Reflecting on the novelty of the humble bottle opener. Creative solutions ranging from 3D printing to the common house nail.
Apparently, you can cast chocolate into individual LEGO-shaped bricks and build some elaborate models with them!
