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Camp Metalhead 2007

Camp Metalhead 2007

Over at the Steel Yard blog, Jackson writes: Camp Metalhead, the Steel Yard’s two week summer youth program, is firing on all cylinders! By the first day, all ten of the students had learned to cut steel using the versatile oxy acetylene torch. A morning trip to our partners over at Mid City Steel and […]

Exploratorium: Maker Saturday Webcasts (Candy Fab is up!)

Exploratorium: Maker Saturday Webcasts (Candy Fab is up!)

The latest Exploratorium: Maker Saturday Webcast is up – CandyFab, the sugar printer created by Windell Oskay and Lenore Edman, creates 3D sculpture by stacking 2D images made of sugar. This sweet project ties together many disciplines–motion control, woodworking, microcontroller programming, sewing, reverse engineering, circuit hacking, high-power analog electronics, 3D modeling, and computer programming. Windell […]

Giant Labyrinth game for sale

Giant Labyrinth game for sale

Dave writes – Last year, I and five friends created this scale version of the popular Brio Labyrinth game for Holocene’s Annual Mini Golf Invitational, where artists are asked to create original mini-golf holes. Labyrinth: The Mini-golf Version is just like Labyrinth: the Original Laptop Game, except played with a golf ball instead of a […]