Mechanical Typewriter Keyboard for iPad
If you like the old-time tactile quality of a classic manual typewriter, but have come to appreciate the ease of use of an iPad, you’ll dig Austin Yang’s iTypewriter mechanical typewriter keyboard.
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Tunneling Couch is the Cat’s Meow
Designer Seungji Mun wanted cat owners to live closer alongside their furry friends, so integrated this curving tunnel into a couch. He used commercially available pipe and built the rest of the couch from scratch.
The tunnel becomes the armrest and back support, seamlessly weaving a leisure spot for humans with an exploratory space for felines.
Skylanders, Monsters Swoop Into Maker Camp
During our Maker Camp game design day and our behind-the-scenes tour of Toys For Bob (makers of the Skylanders), we were surrounded by some incredible toy figures.
Skylanders Designers Come to Maker Camp, Tomorrow
Join Toys for Bob’s Blake Maloof and I-Wei Huang tomorrow at Maker Camp on Google+. They’ll talk about game and character design and present “Monsters Ruined my Summer Camp,” a board game for campers to make and modify.
Massive 19′ Solar-Powered Fan
Attention-grabbing public art is a great way to raise awareness of critical issues. In this case, it’s the clean renewable resource known as solar power.
Math Monday: Linkages, Part 3: Four Bars, Two or Three Positions
By Glen Whitney for the Museum of Mathematics We’re in the midst of putting four-bar linkages through their paces. See the introductory post for this series for the MoMath Linkage Kit, an introduction, and general instructions. Last time we saw the complexity of what seems like a pretty simple mechanism: four bars, connected at their […]
Slot-Together Crib Made of ApplePly
This slot-together mini-crib made was made with MDF forms cut on a CNC milling machine. The forms were than used with a hand-held router to cut sturdy ApplePly plywood. Only four stainless steel pins were used in the assembly.
