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Making Digital Art Real

3D printing service provider Sculpteo and game developer Infinite Dreams today announced a partnership that will allow users to turn digitally rendered pots into the real thing.

Infinite Dreams’ popular “Let’s Create! Pottery” app lets users shape, fire, and paint a piece of pottery in a virtual environment. The new relationship with Sculpteo brings the experience into the physical world by allowing users to purchase full color, printed versions of their pottery directly from the app.

Continue Reading March 3rd, 2013 Eric Weinhoffer6

Creating Impressive 3D Effects with the Lynx A

What happens when a few of the engineers at Lynx Laboratories decide to enter a statewide hackathan and make a real-time, interactive music visualizer with our device? Well, we pumped up the Daft Punk, invited some friends over, and ended up with a pretty trippy video.

Continue Reading February 28th, 2013 Albertrondan2

Interview with Pinoccio Co-Founder Eric Jennings

Eric Weddington, marketing manager for open source and communities at Atmel, posted an in-depth interview with Pinoccio’s Eric Jennings. Pinnoccio is a new, open source hardware company. Their first product is a microcontroller board aimed at creating “a complete ecosystem” for the internet of things. Pinoccio calls their board an “Arduino Mega with wings.” It’s Raspberry Pi-friendly, too.

Continue Reading February 27th, 2013 Stett Holbrook2

Hacking on the Frontier of Gestural Input

When the Microsoft Kinect game controller came onto the scene in 2010, the maker community immediately saw its potential as an input device for 3D scanning, gestural input, and spacial recognition. Initially, Microsoft didn’t like the idea of people hacking their product, but it didn’t stop the most eager among us from successfully cracking the […]

Continue Reading February 25th, 2013 Matt Richardson20

Retrocomputing — Old Hardware: Anything but Garbage

Scavenging components from cast-off tech.

Continue Reading February 22nd, 2013 Craig Couden

Making Trouble — Simply Cad

Computer-aided design doesn’t have to be awful. There’s a CAD program out there for you.

Continue Reading February 22nd, 2013 Craig Couden

Making The World’s Thinnest Watch

Dave Vondle and Jerry O’Leary are making the world’s thinnest watch. I’ve enjoyed watching this project unfold from day 1. Actually, I’ve been watching this project unfold well before that. Dave was my summer intern in 2004. Working with smart, talented interns is always a joy, but every once in a while someone comes along who is truly gifted. I learned so much more from Dave that summer than he learned from me, and I continue to learn from. Dave moved on to IDEO after college, and was one of the people behind IDEO Labs. It was there that Dave honed his skills as a talented maker who skillfully combines engineering, design, and aesthetic to make some great new devices like this watch.

Continue Reading February 19th, 2013 Kipp Bradford16

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