Year: 2014

Take a tour of the Decware studio in Peoria, Illinois where tube amplifiers are hand-crafted by a crew of four.

Cool cat cake stand via A Beautiful Mess.

We need to move schools to a making curriculum to make learning more humane and to reduce the dropout rate.

I love miniatures. And I love bicycles. So you can imagine how enamored I was when I stumbled upon these photos of a bike workshop made in miniature.

Open-source Shenzhen startup uFactory (we mentioned their ball-balancing robot recently) has announced a new crowdfunding campaign for uArm, a robotic arm that’s small enough to fit on your desk.

Last month, Louisville’s LVL1 hackerspace held an experimental drone combat event, QUACC: Quadrotor Ultimate Aerial Combat Competition. Participants using el-cheapo Syma X1 quadrotors to even the playing field, and hung ribbons from the chassis to give the contestants something to aim for.

Artist Chris Motely knits amazing wearable artworks with a Seussian feel, like this lovely piece called The Hugging Scarf.