I’m pumped up from an inspiring day yesterday at The Conference of Creative Entrepreneurs! We heard talks from Faythe Levine and Cathie Filian, and I sat on panels about podcasting and teaching your craft. If you’re in Seattle, there’s no reason to miss out on the rest of the event! You can still sign up […]
You printed some fabjects with your 3D printer, now what? Ph.D student Jon Hiller and professor Hod Lipson of the Cornell Computational Synthesis Laboratory created this concept for an automated voxel factory. Imagine a desktop fabricator capable of making perfectly repeatable, arbitrary, multi material 3D objects with microscale precision. The objects would be composed of […]
RazErBlades: Motor-assisted inline skates controlled by a force-sensing throttle built into a wrist guard. Vehicle: Electric inline skate Drivetrain: 2 wheel direct drive Mechanical: 6061 aluminum skate frame, ABS and various plastics upper Motor: 2 100 watt custom BLDC hub motors Controller: Maxon 380200 DEC 50/5 BLDC control module DIGI XBee 2.4Ghz 802.15.4 radio modules […]
If there’s guac at a party, you can usually find me standing next to the bowl. Wedding photographer Raya Carlisle shares her recipe for guacamole on design*sponge where I am sure that photos alone in this post will make your mouth water. I like to make mine without cilantro but don’t mind it if it […]
Electronics Flea Market – today! Saturday Aug. 14 – Hosted by West Valley Amateur Radio Association. The Electronics Flea Market “swap meet” is held on the second Saturday (pre dawn) of each month, March through October. The flea market is organized by ASVARO for the benefit of non-profit amateur radio organizations in the Silicon Valley. […]
TEDxNASA speaker and Virginia Tech professor Dennis Hong describes the robots that he and his students are working on. [Via Fay]
Robert Therrien’s giant furniture (above Gagosian gallery)… More @ Toxel.com
