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Peace, Love, and EL Wire

Peace, Love, and EL Wire

The thing this first-time Burner found the most overwhelming (in the good way) was the presence of the maker spirit everywhere I looked. Practically everything that makes its way to Black Rock City is made by hand, and most of it is made just because nothing quite like it has ever been made before.

Telepresence Zen Garden

Telepresence Zen Garden

Harford Hackerspace’s Telepresence Zen Garden looks awesome! Such a great idea. For this yearโ€™s RedBull Creation competition, we had to incorporate a ‘Bullduino’ into the project of our choice. What is a Bullduino? Itโ€™s essentially an Arduino Uno shaped like the RedBull logo. So, we came up with the idea of creating a Telepresence Zen […]

Gregg Fleishman’s Plywood Puzzle Chairs

Gregg Fleishman’s Plywood Puzzle Chairs

These are are just a few of architect and artist Gregg Fleishman’s amazing “panel puzzle” designs. To left, a 2002 chair called Nebula II, and to right, a timeline showing stages in the evolution of his 1979 Lumbarest design, the first prototype of which dates to 1975. Besides furniture, Gregg also designs buildings and model vehicles using a similar body of techniques.

Magnum Phoenix CNC Project (Help Wanted!)

Magnum Phoenix CNC Project (Help Wanted!)

Buried deep beneath piles of rubble and old text books, two CNC machines lie hidden and forgotten in the corner of an abandoned shop class. But now, with help from the local community, Analy High School in Sebastopol, Cali. is working to reclaim this forgotten space and convert the building back into a place for learning and experimenting. Leading […]