Lego Hoberman sphere
Built mostly from Lego Technic elements by Brickshelf user barman, who credits the idea to a model displayed at Brickfest 2006 by one Jason Allermann. Looks like it can’t really expand that far. Still cool, though.
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Make: Online migration progress report
It is I, your friendly, neighborhood Spiderman (or an unreasonable facsimile)! I just wanted to give you extraordinarily patient makers a quick update on where we are in our efforts to migrate to WordPress, move into the cloud, and upgrade our antiquated commenting system. We managed to get the IE8/Opera 11 bug fixed. We had […]
Kinect video scratching
Via Peter Kirn’s Create Digital Motion comes this work from artist Mauritius Seeger, using a Kinect to “scratch” video using proximity info. Mauritius write: I use modul8 with a midi controller and have kind of given up on video scratching because it’s so bad in software when i last tried it ( with modul8) and […]
MAKE chosen as #1 education site by UK Telegraph
There are a wealth of websites that assist and promote outside the classroom Photo: PA We’ve been having quite a day. First Dale’s excellent TED talk hit the TED site, then we read Mark Sigal’s blog piece about the future of trade shows (where he cites Maker Faire as an example of the future of […]
“Mod Men,” new casemodding show
Described as “American Chopper for geeks,” this forthcoming web series applies the familiar formula of designing/building shows to computer casemodding. I’m not particularly interested in casemods, but then, I’m not particularly interested in motorcycles, cars, or home remodeling, and I watch those shows, so computer builds are at least in my wheelhouse. I look forward […]
Fisheye iPhone case mod
If you’ve got an old camera laying around and are looking for some fun, try taking off the lens and snap a few pictures through it with your smartphone. If you’ve got a particularly interesting lens, like from a Lomo or some other odd plastic camera, you might then want to glue it to a spare case like redditor linc90 has with a derelict iPhone 4 case.
DIY smartphone vent mount
This how-to from maker Ryan Mottau explains turning the ever popular binder clip into an adjustable vent mount for almost any smartphone out there.