In this video, Kristin White from TalkTech interviews Bryan Pate, co-founder of PT Motion Works about his elliptiGO glide bike, which is powered by an elliptical training motion. If you missed the elliptiGO at Maker Faire this May, this video is a good introduction. As a former ironman competitor, Bryan explains why this bike is […]
You may have seen ReForm School’s student of the month, TribeWanted Baby Zaishus. Tribewanted is a “unique community tourism project that is simultaneously based on Vorovoro Island, Fiji and online” and a zaishu is “a portable, simplified seat / table / box that slots together without nails, screws or glue.” The artist, Kaz Brecher, sent […]
Kristen of Plush You talks with amigurumi designer Ana Paula Rimoli about her work and her new book Amigurumi World: Seriously Cute Crochet. Details on how to win this new book are in the interview.
Core77’s Carl Alviani caught up with super-Maker-Faire-planner Sherry Huss and Make’s managing editor Shawn Connally for an interview video at Maker Faire. It’s nice to see two really special and crucial behind-the-scenes folks share their amazing ideas on camera.
Fay Rhodes, LEGO Mindstorms NXT author, is holding a contest to find an alternate foot for a camel design. The wheel used as feet for my camel design came from the Education Resource set, but now LEGO has exchanged that wheel for another that lacks the TECHNIC pin holes–making it unusable for the foot. I […]
Faythe and Kim from Milwaukee’s Paper Boat Boutique were recently interviewed on Heart Handmade, and it’s great reading for anyone who might be interested in opening their own shop–or for anyone looking to submit their work to an indie boutique.
Here’s a video of my visit to the 2008 National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Purdue University last month. It was a lot of fun to hear the participants talk about their creations and to see them running their machines. Not since the classic 1982 video game BurgerTime has the task of making a burger […]
