Bristol maker Arthur Amarra’s voice-controlled robot arm seems like the perfect rainy day afternoon project. Using an off-the-shelf USB robotic arm and a laptop running various OSS tools, Arthur is able to dictate commands to the arm with a high degree of success.
Make: Projects community member and winner of the MAKE Volume 27 Robot Contest, OddBot, recently shared a new project build with us in the form of a Playful Puppy Robot. How playful? You be the judge: OddBot shows you how to build the puppy bot, which is Arduino compatible and requires no soldering. The sample […]
I love when someone comes up with a delightful idea and follows through on it. Themed photo shoots … yes! Craftster user ChainCrafts says: My wife only asked for one thing for her birthday this year. She wanted to do a Post-Apocalypse/Zombie Slaying family photo shoot! To that end, I created armor for all of […]
We’ve been enjoying all of our themes and Skill Builder series this year, but many of us are particularly excited by this month: Hobby How-Tos. All of us being kids at heart, we still have a soft spot for things like scale modeling, rocketry, tabletop gaming, Legos, R/C vehicles, model railroading, miniatures and action figure modding, cosplay, papercraft, you name it.
If you read this blog regularly, you may have noticed that I’m obsessed with textiles and textile design. (I’m currently biting my nails for Celia Birtwell‘s book to come out.) I have attempted to learn Illustrator a few times, to no avail, so I’m delighted to see this great tutorial for learning how to design […]
With multiple performances by video hackers LoVid, duels on guitars-turned-game controllers by Modal Kombat, and a handful of other visual delights and audible jams, Signal to Noise is becoming something of a staple for the art-meets-tech community in NYC.
For all the bookworms out there, this is your event! NYC Resistor is hosting a “super-mega DIY Book Arts workshop” this Saturday, Oct. 8. What will you learn? Book binding techniques Paper engineering mechanisms An introduction to printing with the Intaglio press For one afternoon, it sounds like you’ll learn quite a bit! You can […]
