Wooden writing automaton – wood robot from the 19th century – Karakuri Ningyo
Here’s a video of an amazing 19th Century wooden automaton that writes kanji on a sheet of paper, at the end you can see how it works… – [via]
Month: November 2006
Blip Festival 2006 NYC NOV 30 – DEC 3 – MAKE is a sponsor & will be there!
We’re pleased to announce that MAKE will be a sponsor of the Blip Festival 2006 NYC NOV 30 – DEC 3! We’ll also have a table there, so stop by! “THE TANK and 8BITPEOPLES are pleased to present the Blip Festival, a four-day celebration of over 30 international artists exploring the untapped potential of low-bit […]
AutoStitch – Make panoramas
AutoStitch looks pretty incredible, it can automatically stitch your photos together, there’s a free demo to try out too (Windows) – “Autostitch is the world’s first fully automatic 2D image stitcher. Capable of stitching full view panoramas without any user input whatsoever, Autostitch is a breakthrough technology for panoramic photography, VR and visualisation applications. This […]
HOW TO – Make an iPod Shuffle Gen 2 (new one!) travel case
Betoldi shows you how to make a simple case for that new tiny iPod shuffle from the Apple headphone cases – “Ok, this will only work for some people as it requires you to own a pair Apple in-ear headphones to use their case. I wouldnt recomend buying some just for the case couse they […]
DIY Paper globe packaging…
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Funnypolynomial made this paper globe as a gift delivery accoutrament – “Kathy likes globes, and I wanted a unique gift-delivery mechanism, so I printed/cut/folded/glued a rhombicuboctahedron from here … I left the top square unglued so it would open up to reveal the gift (earrings). “ – Link. Related: Map […]
Punkin Chunkin – A report from the field!
Dale (MAKE editor and publisher) sends in this report from the annual Punkin Chunkin event – It’s the first weekend after Halloween and that means it’s time for the World Championship Punkin Chunkin to take place in a large empty cornfield in Millsboro, Delaware. Make Contributing Editor Bill Gurstelle and I are at Punkin Chunkin […]
Robotic hand – $16
For $16, this could be really useful for a lot of projects… A robot hand – “The various gears and levers inside this clear plastic hand interact to move the fingers as if they are playing one of six classic piano pieces; as the digits play selections from Beethoven’s “Fifth Symphony”, Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer,” […]