Tucked away on an unassuming post-industrial avenue in Toronto, Canada, is Roger Wood’s Klockwerks. A self-identifying Steampunk clock-maker, Wood is a collector and fabricator of romantic artifacts and oddities. As an artisan of fantasy his work is an amalgamation of timepieces and neo-Victorian aesthetic. If you’re familiar with the Klockwerks Chronulator, featured in Make: Online […]
Makers is a beautiful hardbound book that introduces you to a brigade of citizen engineers making their own cameras, clocks, airplanes, submarines, musical instruments, weapons, medical equipment, energy- saving devices, robots, and houses. They create their own tools to explore the outer atmosphere, the deep sea, and the behavior of tiny flies in their backyard. […]
In the mail today arrived the 36 page schedule/flyer for this year’s SolarFest. Based on the three I’ve been to in the past, this should be an excellent time as well. There are plenty of workshops, live music, and great vendors who have either made their own wares or are willing to share lots of […]
Eric started experimenting with processing and came up with GlowDoodle. A few weeks ago, he showed me the program and we messed around with some light. When we talked, he had the mac version running, and was still in development of the Windows version, which is also now ready for a free download. There are […]
Using nothing more than folded paper, German artist Simon Schubert creates some impressively realistic architectural imagery. Check out his online gallery to view the larger collection. [via Geekologie]
Christian Ristow‘s jaw-droppingly amazing Hand of Man was ‘on hand’ at Maker Faire, crushing barrels with ease! In the above vid, he shares some details about the massive mechanical appendage and its human interface. I didn’t get a chance to actually pilot the hand but it looked like the attendees who did had a whole […]
I’m loving this sculpture series in the upcoming Venice Bienalle by Jan Fabre called From the feet to the brain . This one is The future merciful heart for men and women and is made from glass, ballpoint pen ink, and human bones. Anybody know how to make something like those glass femurs? Via Who […]
