This product looks really cool! NeverWet is a two-part coating that can be applied to nearly any surface — cloth, electronics, concrete, and so on — and it totally repels liquid. It was developed by Ross Nanotechnology who licensed it to Rust-Oleum, and you can buy it at the Home Depot. [via C-Net]
Are you a visual knitter? You’re definitely going to want to check out Stitch Maps!
Are 3D printers a continuation of developments in a modern technology that started over 500 years ago with Gutenberg? Printers use a variety of materials and processes, and now you can print in 3D. Or will we look back one day and think that these fabricators represent the beginning of something entirely new, and we might consider 3D printer such as MakerBot the start, not the end, and that’s there’s generation of 3D machines we haven’t seen yet. Maybe we should have been calling them something other than printers, a better name such as “fabbers.”
Turn a plain clutch into an eye-catching summer accessory with this mod melts embellished clutch tutorial!
Here at Make, we’ve been fans of crowdfunding as a way for makers to move their dreams from prototype to product for a long time. We are just now starting to take baby steps towards curating and recommending these kinds of projects to our readers, but we think this can be a valuable service, since we have so many connections to the makers taking these leaps, and those who already have.
The makers of MakeBlock, a very cool and sophisticated extruded aluminum building set, are showing off their stuff with this fantastic xylophone-playing robot controlled by an Arduino. MakeBlock, as you can see from the photo, is very beautiful (love the blue anodization!) and it’s extremely well thought out. They’re a startup located in Shenzhen, China. […]
Ravelry user Gryphon Corpus made these amazing socks with the text from the first page of Beowulf knitted into them. Just for, y’know, when you feel like walking around on an epic poem.
