How-To: Cast A Bowl Between Two Balloons
Interesting experimental process, thoroughly documented in photos and on video, from designer Maarten De Ceulaer. [via NOTCOT]
Workshop
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
Math Monday: Mathematical Coffee Table
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics If you make a coffee table that express a mathematical idea and place it right in the middle of your living room, that certainly makes a statement to all who visit that math is central in your life. This looks like an ordinary square coffee table, but […]
Cybraphon, Autonomous Emotional Robot Band
Cybraphon, the latest project from Edinburgh-based artist collective FOUND, searches the web for reviews of its performances, and changes its playing style as a result. Image conscious and emotional, the band’s performance is affected by online community opinion as it searches the web for reviews and comments about itself 24 hours a day.
Kindergarten Shop Class
Julie Scelfo from The New York Times writes about woodworking classes that are geared toward a younger set of children, some even as young as five years old. From Brian Cohen, co-founder of Beam Camp: “My partner and I saw that kids were spending too much time interacting with perfect interfaces,” said Mr. Cohen, 45. […]
Liberty Vintage Motorcycles Video Portrait
Etsy’s got a gorgeous profile video out in their Handmade Portraits series about Adam Cramer of Liberty Vintage Motorcycles: I met Adam Cramer five or six years ago, when I was living in South Philadelphia. My film career was just getting started and I was spending a lot of time in a local coffee shop […]
Top 10: Gears!
We have done both gear- and gear-making-related roundups before, but our gear world has turned (bam!) quite a few times since then, and we’ve covered some even hotter gear action in the interim. Someday there’s going to be a gear-roundup roundup. But for now, here’s our top gear content as it stands today:
Skill Set: The Beginning (Mechanical) Engineer’s Checklist
A while ago MAKE did a post on A Beginning Engineer’s Checklist from the PIClist site. And while I love these kind of lists, it left me – as a mechanical engineering – feeling a little left out, with all the talk of chips and Ohm’s Law and power busses (oh my!). It also reminded […]