Funky Machine Knit Dolls
Tumblr user mandalinarossa created this whimsical set of colorful dolls using a knitting machine! I made little boys on my knitting machine! they came out so funky! [via cherylcambras]
Month: February 2012
Balloon Gripper with Positive Pressure Mode Can “Shoot” as Well as Grab
Last March, roboticist Eric Brown and co-workers at the University of Chicago made headlines with their new, unconventional robot gripper design: a balloon filled with coffee grounds or other grainy material and fitted with a vacuum line. At atmospheric pressure, the balloon is squishy and can be “mushed” around an object—even traditionally hard-to-grip stuff like […]
Businessweek Predicts “Culture Clash” Between Open Source and VCs
Wharton economist Jeremy Rifkin: “The maker movement is ‘as significant as the shift from agriculture to the early industrial era.'”
How-To How-To
When we launched Make: Projects, our how-to wiki, a year and a half ago, we wanted to free all the great projects from the over 25 volumes of MAKE by offering them up on the site. That way, folks could check them out even if they didn’t have the issues of MAKE the projects came […]
An Urban Farm in a Concrete Jungle
While New York City is known more for its “Silicon Alley” start-ups, showrooms for just about every major technology company, and of course the boogie-woogie lights of Broadway and Times Square, there’s another – older and often unseen – side to the city of five boroughs.
“The Three Inventors” Papercut Animation (1980)
“Les Trois Inventeurs” (“The Three Inventors”) is a beautiful 1980 papercut animation film about a family of inventors that build amazing machines but are misunderstood by others. It’s the story of an encounter between the soaring joy of creativity and the destructive nature of fear. In one scene, the father glides elegantly through the air […]
Decorative Paper Lanterns
Martha Stewart’s paper lanterns are such a breath of fresh air.
