Happy 3.1415926535 – Pi Day! Pi, Greek letter (), is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi Day is celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world on March 14th. Pi = 3.1415926535… With the use of computers, Pi has been calculated to over 1 trillion digits past […]
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw: Smallest Zine In The World by The Bottomless Paddling Pool, play clothtylophone by syano, Schlitz box amp by nitdoggx, Oscilloscope + arduino by zeni666.
Do you have a blue bin? They make recycling SO easy. My twitter friend Joscie documents arrival of her blue bin with this great scrapbook page. I love that she uses a photo with nice depth of field and repetition to anchor this “green” spread with a blue color scheme. You can check out her […]
Congratulations to Talela of Atlanta, Georgia and Mahshed of Victoria, BC, Canada, winners of Joan Gorman’s Stitch Village E-book. Thanks to everyone who entered, and be sure to check out Joan’s blog, Nini Makes.
Kirigami is kind of like origami except you get to make cuts, too! Check out Daniel Wyllie L. Rodrigues‘s excellent kirigami geometric shapes. The top image is called Five Spheres of Persistence. Each of the five spheres consists of a cube, an octahedron and a rhombic dodecahedron on top of each other. The bottom image […]
Conference-goers had fun building tiny robots and high-tech graffiti at the TEDActive event in Palm Springs this year, thanks to Newegg and the Maker Shed. The annual get-together of big thinkers had a “lab” area where conference attendees built bristlebots, LED throwies, and RGB LED origami lamps.
Xylocopa Design (of Build-Your-Own Ratmobile fame) just added this beautiful Mysterious Mushroom Puzzle to their Makers Market store: These gorgeous engraved wooden mushrooms fit together to make a 6″ square – but in only one configuration! Assembling them may not look so bad, but trust us, it’s no simple task. Each mushroom is based on […]
