October is Casting Month!
Continuing our monthly materials themes for 2012, in October we’re featuring materials used in molding and casting.
Workshop
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
DIY Rock Climbing Holds
If you’re an indoor rock climber, the time might come when you want to build your own climbing wall. Rock climbing holds aren’t as cheap, even though they’re just a bit of plastic or fiberglass. So maybe you’ll decide make your own! On Wardie’s World, Wardie has a post up describing how his friend John […]
Android-Controlled Mindstorms Plotter
Eason Ke’s NXT Painter, a LeJOS-controlled plotter, draws whatever the user draws on the screen of an Android device. Code here. [via The NXT Step]
DiResta: Heart Key
In each bi-monthly episode of DiResta (every other Wednesday at 2pm PT), artist and master builder Jimmy DiResta lets us into his workshop, to look over his shoulder while he builds whatever strikes his fancy. In this episode, Jimmy gets all sentimental and fabricates a heart key for a friend.
Workshop: Len Cullum in Seattle, Washington
Making Connections By Laura Cochrane Photography by John Keatley Neatly lined up along the walls of Len Cullum’s 1,500-square-foot north Seattle workshop are handmade Japanese chisels, saws, and planes. In a building rumored to have once been a shark oil processing plant, Cullum, 46, creates Japanese-style shoji doors and windows, garden structures, and furniture. Cullum constructs […]
Foreign Affairs: How to Make Almost Anything
Foreign Affairs magazine just published a long piece by Neil Gershenfeld, How To Make Almost Anything. The title comes from Gershenfeld’s famous class at MIT; if you look through the rosters of past classes you’ll find a lot of familiar names, including David Cranor and Maxim Lobovsky of Formlabs (who premiered their Form 1 printer […]
Gotye Old School Computer Remix
That catchy pop hit from Gotye, “Somebody that I used to know”, is painstakingly rendered with an HP Scanjet 3C, Amiga 600, a couple of hard drives, and PIC-controlled xylophone by Toronto-based melody maker bd594.