How an Architect Uses a 3D Printer
I took some time to talk to Marcele Godoy about how she uses 3D printing in the context of being an architect.
Science
DIY science is the perfect way to use your creative skills and learn something new. With the right supplies, some determination, and a curious mind, you can create amazing experiments that open up a whole world of possibilities. At home-made laboratories or tech workshops, makers from all backgrounds can explore new ideas by finding ways to study their environment in novel ways – allowing them to make breathtaking discoveries!
Earthquake-Actuated Artbot
This bot visualizes earthquakes as splotches of paint, squirting paint color coded to the strength of each quake. Quakescape is a 3D fabricator that works by taking earthquake data from the site GeoNet (www.geonet.org.nz) and transferring it into the medium of art by using paint and Arduino technology. Quakescape creates a transformation of data that […]
Math Monday: Linkages – Let’s Get This Straight
If you recall, in the last installment before we took a breather, Math Mondays posed a question/challenge: Is there a four bar linkage that produces precisely straight motion? How about a linkage?
Flexible “Willow Glass” Sheeting
Launched this summer, Corning’s Willow Glass is an ultra-thin (0.1mm), flexible, roll-processable glass sheet intended for use in next-generation display devices. From an applications point of view, it offers the possibility of curved displays and/or interfaces that wrap around object or devices, and from a manufacturing point of view, the possibility of producing display devices using continuous “roll-to-roll” assembly, kind of like how bulk paper goods are processed.
Raspberry Pi Heat Maps
Remy at Spanish-language tech site Geektopia is a Raspberry Pi enthusiast with access to a thermal imager. Sounds like my kind of guy.
December is Glass Month
With November behind us, we’re wrapping up our 2012 Year of Materials theme, this month, with a focus on glass. Glass, in the broadest sense of the term, does not imply any particular type of atomic or molecular composition, but rather a particular kind of ordering of atoms or molecules in space. Or rather, a lack thereof. In understanding this it is helpful to contrast glasses with crystals, in which atoms/molecules are arranged in repeating rows, columns, or other identifiable patterns, like cannonballs stacked on a courthouse lawn. Glasses, on the other hand, are more like dice poured haphazardly into a jar.
Making Paper Bricks in India
At MAKE we have covered a type of paper brick before, but it was used simply as a fire starter. Professors Rahul Ralegaonkar and Sachin Mandavgane of the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology in India (VNIT) have come up with a process to make paper bricks designed for creation instead of destruction.