Just what you need to speed up your D&D sessions! The mission: To make an absurdly overcomplicated robot to do something as simple as roll some dice. It’s sort of a Rube Goldberg machine although for the sake of practicality there’s buttons to control the throwing and then the picking back up again so that […]
Make: Live episode 09 was broadcasted from the grounds of Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Thanks to our guests David Farish, Sung Kim, Jimmie Rodgers, Tero Karvinen, Kimmo Karvinen, Lindsay Lawlor, Gerard Nebesky, and our special guest host, Super Awesome Sylvia. Catch up on video and notes from the show here. Subscribe to the MAKE […]
Old but very interesting resource from Canadian Robert Scharein, programmer of the software package KnotPlot. The knots are organized by the number of crossings, and can be clicked on to display rotatable 3D models. [via Maxwell’s Demon]
Carol of Fun Threads created this awesome Spock quilt for the 2011 Bloggers’ Quilt Festival. She details her process for starting with a simple pumpkin carving template and turning it in to the pattern for the quilt. Fascinating. (pun intended) [via Dude Craft] Related: Spock Seed Bead Art Spock Matza Spock Ears Knitting Pattern
Frederick McSwain created DIE, a portrait made of dice in memory of his friend, Tobias Wong, an artist and designer who died last year. Frederick used 13,138 dice, one for each day Tobias lived: The idea of a die itself was appropriate—the randomness of life. It felt like [a medium] he would use. Because [Tobias] […]
Becky and Matt speak to a few makers that exhibited at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 the evening before it opened to the public. This is an archived episode from Make: Live, which was originally broadcasted on 5/20/11. Go to https://makezine.com/live/ for information about the show, chat transcripts, and details on the next show.
As someone who’s witnessed the entire process of setting up, staffing, and breaking down the Sheds at most of our Faires, I can attest to the fact that it’s an absolutely staggering amount of effort — endless grunt work, logistics, stocking and merchandising, shipping and receiving, point of sales, product demoing, and on and on and on. And the fact that it’s all done by a relatively small number of staff people (and a platoon of precious volunteers) is equally impressive.
