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03/08/2012
Our special contributor, Jon Kalish, drives into Missouri’s corn and soybean country in search of the Open Source Ecology project.
03/08/2012
We've already had some great reader suggestions for Natural Materials month. The first that caught my eye this morning is...
03/07/2012
When we say "natural materials," the mind leaps immediately to wood, stone, leather, natural fibers. But there are lots of...
02/23/2012
There are so many cool projects out there that use conductive ink, but where to get the ink? Now you...
02/08/2012
Editor’s Note: When we were putting together our Make: Ultimate Kit Guide, we wanted to highlight the makers of the...
02/02/2012
The first time I used ShapeLock was my hotel room at Maker Faire: Bay Area. Ever since then I have...
02/01/2012
The folks at Aerogel.org are serious about it: The “Make” section of their exhaustive “open source aerogel” site will teach...
01/31/2012
Shape-memory alloy (SMA), metal that changes shape when heated to an activation temperature can be used in all sorts of...
01/31/2012
It’s a simplistic question, possibly even naive. Put it to a chemical engineer or a materials scientist, and she or...
01/30/2012
Human beings have been smithing silver for millennia. I was surprised to learn, therefore, that significant advances in silver metallurgy...
01/27/2012
Two years ago I wrote about what a delight it was to discover the UT-Austin School of Architecture’s Materials Lab...
01/26/2012
DIY methods for electroactive polymer actuators are hard to come by, and none of them are kitchen-counter simple. But compared...
01/25/2012
HydroSpan 100, from Houston-based Industrial Polymers Corporation, is billed as “a 3 dimensional copy machine enlarging any shape or design...
01/24/2012
As Advanced Materials Month enters its final week, we’re gathering together some of the coolest projects from the dusty archives...
01/24/2012
Reportedly, fully 20 percent—some 200 million—of the world’s mobile devices incorporate a clear cover made of Corning’s Gorilla Glass brand...
01/23/2012
Very cool widget from British firm RTL Materials, who’ve figured out a trick for making composite tubes that are pre-stressed,...
01/20/2012
Shape-memory metals get a fair amount of attention, but shape memory polymers exist, too. In fact, heat-shrink tubing is a...
01/19/2012
Our crack shot of an Art Director, Jason Babler, sent me a link to this video of Dutch artist Jólan...
01/19/2012
“Shape memory” materials are so named because they can be deformed, then restored to their earlier shape by changing external...
01/16/2012
On Friday, I wrote about the development of amorphous or “glassy” metal alloys, in which the atoms are packed together...
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