The steam mechanics, oilpunks, contraptors, neo-Victorians cosplayers, retro-futurists, post-apocalyptic Playa pirates, New Dandies, and electric cowboys were all out in force at this year’s Bay Area Maker Faire. There was the Victorian castle on wheels, the steam-powered runabout, the steam-effects scooter, the fire-spewing bar with vaudeville side-stage, the radio-tubed Theremin, and the outdoor Victorian sitting […]
Milliner Boring Sidney created this 1940s-style floral headpiece from snack food bags–now that’s recycling in style!
This is an amazing robot created by David Bowen. Here is how he explains his Growth Rendering Device: This system provides light and food in the form of hydroponic solution for the plant. The plant reacts to the device by growing. The device in-turn reacts to the plant by producing a rasterized inkjet drawing of […]
Guy worked on these pieces from 1986 – 2006. Over the course of 20 years he has moved from finding his parts at local shops, to scouring the Internet for interesting pieces. These are some of the most amazing electronic sculptures I have ever seen. In each piece I attempt to design circuitry that creates […]
This project is for those of you that want to explore communications via LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellites. You can manually point your antenna, but a micro-controller makes it a whole lot easier. The basis for operation is fairly straightforward. A tracking program (WiSP, Nova for Windows, The Station Program, and DK1TB’s SatPC32 program are […]
Give your technology a bit of handmade love with the Amy Butler Laptop Cover and MP3 Case pattern ($12.95) now available at Reprodepot.com.
Cindy Moore is rewriting lace patterns from the 1897 book The Art of Knitting, modernizing the terminology and charts used in the patterns. You can buy greeting cards with the patterns on her website (great Mother’s Day idea), and look at her altered book full of swatches.
