WiFi-Extending Robot
A group of students from Northwestern University scratch built this WiFi extending robot, called CommBor, almost entirely from billet aluminum.
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Telepresence Zen Garden
Harford Hackerspace’s Telepresence Zen Garden looks awesome! Such a great idea. For this year’s RedBull Creation competition, we had to incorporate a ‘Bullduino’ into the project of our choice. What is a Bullduino? It’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
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.
MAKE Hardware Innovation Workshop Extras: Carl Bass’s Workshop
The MAKE Hardware Innovation Workshop is an open source hardware conference for members of the maker community, venture investors and technology leaders.
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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 […]
CNC Milling a Mobius strip
This video shows the manufacture of one of three 2011 MobiPrize awards, designed by a firm called rvtr. The MobiPrize “recognizes enterprises that demonstrate innovative and replicable solutions to local and global transportation challenges.” The award itself features a prominent Mobius strip motif, which is machined out of a piece of recycled aluminum on a 5-axis mill.
DIWire Build Plans Available for Download
The folks at Pensa have uploaded the bill of materials, code, and models of the custom parts for 3D printing for DIWire, their open-source wire-bending machine.
