Month: April 2010

Anti/Surveillance Fashion Show at Maker Faire

Submit your project! John Baichtal @ Make: Online alerts us to this cool Maker Faire opportunity: Noisebridge is proud to present Anti/Surveillance Fashion Show at the upcoming Maker Faire in San Mateo. Anti/Surveillance is a runway show exploring the uses of wearables for surveillance, and for hiding from surveillance. We are currently accepting submissions for […]

Arduino-powered kinetic sculpture

MAKE subscriber Rich Gilbank of Toronto, ON wrote in to share this project: Anthros is a project I began working on as my fourth-year university thesis project for New Media at Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada). It uses open source tech (OpenFrameworks, Arduino) to make large tentacle-like nodes follow a user through a space. It was […]

Fold-up “robotagami” figures

Fold-up “robotagami” figures

Lubbock, Texas artist Dustin Wallace, whose larger one-off/limited edition transforming robot sculptures I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, also makes these wicked little “robotagami” dudes that are CNC-cut from sheet metal (stainless steel or copper), ship flat, and get slotted together and folded up to make a dimensional figure by the buyer.

Lady Banks Rose

Lady Bank’s Rose is a delicate evergreen rose with tiny, puffy yellow flowers. Currently one is just breaking into bloom above the CRAFT and MAKE offices. The best thing about this evergreen beauty is that she is thornless. Thornless! Lady Bank’s is a vigorous climber and flowers freely throughout spring and summer. It’s easy to […]