Polygons with finger joints can be friction-fit together to make many kinds of structures, including tessellations and polyhedra. But one never has enough parts for larger and larger projects, so Steve Garrison makes his own from wood. This ball comprises 60 squares, 20 triangles, and 12 pentagons, with 30 rhombic openings.
Here in Austin, summer temperatures are rarely below 105 degrees. I have been trying to think of cool outdoor activities for my daughter to do. I’m not the first person to think of ice crayons, but I’d like to think I added a few new spins to it.
With a $40 eBay lens and loads of LEGO bricks, photographer Cary Norton built this whimsical, working camera that he calls Legotron. This snapped together camera covers it all: playful, gorgeous, functioning, and inspiring.
Shannon Henry demonstrates her E-textile fiber optic skirts at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. LEDs, fiber optics, and accelerometers are just a few of the elements that she uses to embellish her fashions.
Big news! Maker Faire has its own channel on YouTube. We’re publishing videos from our 2011 Bay Area and Detroit Maker Faires regularly over the next few months. We’re extremely excited and proud to share these maker profiles with you, so if you want to keep up to date on the latest, be sure to subscribe on YouTube.
Zachary Coffin‘s Colossus is a large-scale sculpture of wood and steel that holds massive granite rocks suspended above the ground. Ropes hanging from the rocks are pulled by attendees of Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, setting the entire seventy foot tall structure slowly spinning with great inertia.
Big news! Maker Faire has its own channel on YouTube. We’re publishing videos from our 2011 Bay Area and Detroit Maker Faires regularly over the next few months. We’re extremely excited and proud to share these maker profiles with you, so if you want to keep up to date on the latest, be sure to subscribe on YouTube.
