No video yet, but this looks really interesting – “Inspired by the strange motion of the basilisk lizard, Carnegie Mellon University mechanical engineers have built a tiny robot that can sprint across land and water with equal aplomb.” [via] – Link. Related: Water Runner Robot – Link. How “Jesus Lizards” walk on water – Link.
Looks like you can build your own plane for around $7k, the plans on the site are $24 – “The Affordaplane offers many things other ultralights do not. The fuselage is unique in the industry, utilizing square tubing, the same as gyrocopters have used for thousands of trouble free hours in the air. The Affordaplane […]
We profiled Natalie Jeremijenko in MAKE 02 (toxic sensing robot dogs) – and here’s some of her latest work, amazing animations showing the variety of the lady bug “200 individual labybugs selected from a population of approximately four thousand, become the frames in an animation. The ladybug images are scaled, color corrected and ordered by […]
rAndom writes – “PixelRoller is a paint roller that paints pixels, designed as a rapid response printing tool specifically to print digital information such as imagery or text onto a great range of surfaces. The content is applied in continuous strokes by the user. PixelRoller can be seen as a handheld “printer”, based around the […]
Aram Bartholl’s Paper Pixels – “Paper Pixels is a 30 inch, 8 x 8 pixel, manually controlled screen. Each of the 64 pixels is illuminated steadily by a light bulb. Apart from the light bulbs, no further electronic parts are used. The display is controlled by a long paper strip – the data medium – […]
Mike writes – “My close friend Neal Ormond just made a fire screen the produces some amazing fire art. Solenoids, propane, and a PC. Who knew you could have so much fun?” – Their site has more details and videos – wow, this looks amazing: Forget big screen and flat panel TVs. The Infernoptix Digital […]
OK Makers, we’re going to live blog ABC’s American Inventor (again). If you’re on IRC, visit #make on irc.freednode.net and chat with us, or stop back here on the MAKE blog and see the recap after the show. We’ll have lots of images and descriptions of all the “inventions”. Previous: American Inventor discussion – MAKE […]
