Cal Lane’s Steel Lace
The New York Times has a great feature on artist Cal Lane, who creates intricate lacework sculptures using a torch on old steel items such as wheelbarrows and shovels. Link.
Workshop
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
OLPC vs Kindle
Mike @ Radar has a good review comparing the OLPC and Amazon’s Kindle… different devices, but Mike as you’d expect (O’Reilly/Safari) is looking at these for reading books… Both the Kindle and OLPC can browse the Web. However, the Kindle was designed to browse Amazon’s library of content to purchase. The OLPC has a Firefox […]
Wee House Ornament Printed from an Ink Jet Printer
Jennifer of Swallowfield has made these wee house ornaments by running a fabric sheet through her ink jet printer. Link.
Home Endoscope review – Digital pen camera
Dan writes – An endoscope is a thin viewing device, suitable for being poked into places where the human eye cannot, and possibly should not, otherwise see. Since it’s likely to be dark… in there, endoscopes usually have some sort of illumination device built in. The more sophisticated kinds of endoscope shoot light out of […]
SketchUp book!
PC World has a review of a new SketchUp book, SketchUp is a free and popular 3D tool for designing objects, buildings and more… Phil writes – Remember when your high school English teacher explained that every word in the sentences you write needs to carry some meaning? While the rest of us missed that […]
Review – Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects
We Make Money Not Art has a review our our new book Making Things Talk! – Link & more @ the Maker Store. Programming microcontrollers used to require an expensive development environment costing thousands of dollars and requiring professional electrical engineering expertise. But recent innovations, such as open-source physical computing platforms with simple i/o boards […]
CandyFab
How we built a 3D freeform sugar printer in our kitchen.
