How-To: Rustic Stool with DIY Hairpin-Style Legs
Loving the hairpin leg furniture trend? Make your own with this decorative rustic stool with DIY hairpin-style legs tutorial!
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TechShop Partners with National Instruments
TechShop today announced a new partnership with hardware and software manufacturer National Instruments.
The Most Face-Melting Music Video You’ve Ever Seen
In a fascinating new music video directed by Yoonha Park for experimental rock band Liars, we get to see the process of creating realistic sculptures of their faces using 3D scanning techniques and CNC routing.
PancakeBot Delivers Obama Grandma Slippers
The story of how the “Obama Grandma Slippers” came to the White House is a global maker tapestry, its threads woven by world travelers eager share their knowledge and designs to enable others to create their own products.
How-To: Make Your Own RockChair
After the success of his previous endeavor to create chairs out of tree stumps, industrial designer Colby Unger decided to take his furniture design to “the next level” with a new project called Rock Chair.
3D Printing Gives a New Spin on Ceiling Art
Mark Leonard, who works for Aztec design, is no stranger to intricate and unique projects. After being inspired by a Youtube video, he decided that he had to have a 3D printer. If he was thinking it would expand his creative abilities, it seems he was definitely right. This ceiling art, as you might expect, […]
A Steel Approach to Paper Lamps
I’m a designer at an architecture firm in Ann Arbor Michigan called O|X studio and I made some lamps for a local restaurant (Tomukun Korean BBQ). There are about 50 lamps, laser-cut steel and acrylic. I worked on the architecture as well, including the layout of the lamps, and then I made the lamps myself. […]