In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus mainly on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange, or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your […]
Looking to take a break from tinkering on your latest project this weekend? Here are some fine maker events to check out, from The Maker Events Calendar.
Over at MAKE: Japan, Takumi Funada found this fun-looking open source hardware instrument called RakuChord Mobile.
Benjamin Parker will blow your mind with his origami tessellations. Pictured above is his Light Blue Tessellation, folded from one hexagonal sheet of dyed Zanders Elefantenhaut paper and sewn to a piece of mat board. Based in Connecticut, Benjamin has been making origami since he was 6 years old, and it shows. Check out the […]
We’ll call it Math Wednesday. Marc de Vinck turned me on to these amazing fluid-based polygons and polyhedra: When a vertical water jet strikes a circular horizontal impactor, the water is deflected into a horizontal sheet. At sufficiently high speeds, the flow results in a circular water sheet, whose radius is set by a balance […]
One of the projects I wanted to get out the door for years was released today (beta) “Resisty” – It’s a fun way to learn about resistor values by having a commenter on a WordPress blog figure out the correct values before posting. It’s open source, hack away – can be ported to other blog […]
June Gilbank made this cuddly and posable crochet orangutan, and shows us some of the inner workings of his articulated body!
