Instructables user and aerospace engineer maewert shows us how to turn a backyard shed into a personal astronomical observatory. By modding the roof of a shed so that it can slide off (either manually or driven by a garage door opener), you too can be ready for celestial observation at a moment’s notice.
The big news this week was “Autodesk Acquires Instructables”. It’s taken me a few days of really thinking about this for my column. Autodesk is jumping in to the biggest DIY community online, it’s a huge risk – with likely even bigger reward. I think Autodesk knows how to make a thriving business for professionals, but what about the “makers”? That’s what this week’s column is about – Autodesk Acquires Instructables: What It Means For Makers.
Continuing with the string of zip tie projects turning up on the internets lately, Sean over at MAKE posted this project by an artist called, Brian Jewett. …Jewett made these modern-materials versions of traditional coil baskets using garden hose, cable ties, and spigot handles. You can find out how to make your own Cable Tie […]
Artist Brian Jewett made these modern-material versions of traditional coil baskets using garden hose, cable ties, and spicket handles. He has posted some after-the-fact photos and a written how-to over on Instructables, as part of last week’s Zip Tie Challenge.
Big news in DIY publishing today: Our old pals at Instructables have been acquired by Autodesk, Inc., makers of leading 3D design software packages AutoCAD, Maya, and 3ds Max, as well as the new SketchUp-killer 123D CAD.
Do you want to build some sweet projects in next-to-no time, over the weekend? Of course you do. Look no further than the new Weekend Projects section of Make: Projects, brought to you by RadioShack and The Great Create. Each week over the coming months we’ll be building clever, fun, mostly beginner-friendly, electronics projects.
Clever idea from Japanese firm SoftEther, whose press release is available in English onlyvia machine translation as of this writing. The video pretty much conveys the idea, however. QUMA is rather like an artist’s figure-drawing mannequin with sensors in the joints that report all the articulations through a USB cable. Appropriate software can then position a character’s rigging to match, which seems like it would be both faster and more intuitive than dragging bones around a screen with a mouse.
