Month: January 2014

New Mexico-based maker William Grassie was able to combine his love of R/C aircraft with photogrammetry techniques to help in the restoration of historic buildings in Old Havana, Cuba.

Take a tour of the Decware studio in Peoria, Illinois where tube amplifiers are hand-crafted by a crew of four.

Cool cat cake stand via A Beautiful Mess.

We need to move schools to a making curriculum to make learning more humane and to reduce the dropout rate.

I love miniatures. And I love bicycles. So you can imagine how enamored I was when I stumbled upon these photos of a bike workshop made in miniature.

Open-source Shenzhen startup uFactory (we mentioned their ball-balancing robot recently) has announced a new crowdfunding campaign for uArm, a robotic arm that’s small enough to fit on your desk.

Last month, Louisville’s LVL1 hackerspace held an experimental drone combat event, QUACC: Quadrotor Ultimate Aerial Combat Competition. Participants using el-cheapo Syma X1 quadrotors to even the playing field, and hung ribbons from the chassis to give the contestants something to aim for.