The Wood Database
For a given variety of wood, The Wood Database has images of the wood grain in various stages of preparation (sanded, sealed, endgrain). It’s a great resource for anyone who works with wood.
Workshop
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
Make: Believe // Making Puppets: From Clay to Play (PT 1)
Lex Rudd walked us through how she designs lifelike puppes, fabrication techniques, including early sculpture, pattern making, molding, casting, prototypes, raw materials, and finished products.
Give a gander at Lex’s website www.alexisrudd.com for some of her other works.
More about Make: Believe: makezine.com/go/believe
Make: Believe // Making Puppets: From Clay to Play (PT 2)
Lex Rudd walked us through how she designs lifelike puppes, fabrication techniques, including early sculpture, pattern making, molding, casting, prototypes, raw materials, and finished products.
Give a gander at Lex’s website www.alexisrudd.com for some of her other works.
More about Make: Believe: makezine.com/go/believe
3D Printing Meetup in San Francisco Today!
Hey there all you Bay Area makers and 3D printing enthusiasts. If you want to join the MAKE Meetup on 3D printing and are near San Francisco head over to 3D Systems’ office at 431 Tehama Street. Starting at 6pm they’ll be hosting a meetup with plenty of food and drink
Providence, RI Fab Academy Now Accepting Applications for 2013
The Fab Academy Providence is accepting applications for their 2013 program. This is a six-month long digital fabrication program that’s directed by Neil Gershenfeld and is based on his MIT rapid prototyping course, How to Make (Almost) Anything. Deadline for applications is November 30, 2012.
DiResta: Birch Slice Table
In each bi-monthly episode of DiResta (every other Wednesday at 2pm PT), artist and master builder Jimmy DiResta (“Dirty Money,” “Hammered,” “Against the Grain,” “Trash for Cash”) lets us into his workshop, to look over his shoulder while he builds whatever strikes his fancy. On this episode of DiResta, Jimmy turns some birch branch slices into a table.
Materials and supply lists and Jimmy’s notes on the build here: http://blog.makezine.com/2012/11/14/diresta-slice-table/
Big Thursday: A New Issue, a Live Hangout, and 100+ International Meetups!
This is going to be big. Tomorrow, Nov. 15, MAKE’s editors will be hosting a live Google+ hangout on air at 6pm PST/9pm EST to mark the publication our Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing. We’ll be joined by several 3D printing experts who helped us put 15 of the industry’s top 3D printers through rigorous side-by-sided tests. At the same time, and in the same room, we’ll be hosting a 3D printing themed meetup in MAKE’s Sebastopol, Calif. office as part of our first International Meetup. While that is going on we’ll be joined by 120 (and counting) meetups from around the world