Makey Awards 2012 Nominee 16: Epilog Laser, Repair Friendly
For easy of repair and a design mindful of same, we nominate Epilog Laser for the 2012 Makey Awards in the Repair Friendly category.
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Tapping Out Melodies on a Hardcover Book
ITP resident researcher and sound artist Nick Yulman has expanded his Bricolo modular music system to now include melodies.
Interns Corner: MAKE Robot Project
By Nick Raymond Photos by Gunther Kirsch & Nick Raymond Working at MAKE is anything but boring. On any given day, someone might walk into the MAKE Labs and say, โSo I was thinking about building [fill in the blank], can you help me?โย The people here are open to the idea of collaboration and trying […]
123D Catch Available on iPhone
Autodesk recently released an update to their 123D Catch photogrammetry app that now runs on the iPhone. Similar in function to the previously iPad-only app, a user captures a series of photographs that get forwarded to an online service for processing into a 3D model.
Laser Settings for Engraving Hot Dogs
Adam from X-Laser sent in this important last-minute Fourth of July tip for those of you who have your laser cutters nearby at your BBQ: We used an Epilog Helix 35W, I found that the sweet spot for hot dogs was 1200DPI, 14% speed and 100% power.
Fab Academy and “How To Make Something That Makes (Almost) Anything” Are a Wrap
The third year of the Fab Academy wrapped up last week, with the 70 odd students giving their final project presentations at 13 Fab Labs scattered around the world. The Fab Academy is a distributed education platform built on top of the Fab Lab network; at the core is a curriculum of weekly projects and […]
Arduino GRANDE at Maker Faire
Honey, I Shrunk the Maker I built this 6x larger than real life, fully functional Arduino GRANDE. Why? There was talk among the MAKE: editors about how Arduino is really big at Maker Faire, and I thought, why not make it even bigger? Literally. After modeling it in 3D software, drafting it for laser cutting, […]
