In 2003 and 2004 I had an art studio and I would paint giant color field paintings using a knife with thick layers of oil paint. These would take days to dry and so I started making dolls to fill the time. I made the first one, a cute sad bunny, and took it to […]
MAKE: is one of Apple’s iTunes “best video podcast of 2007, classics: video”. Thanks Apple and everyone who picked us! You can see all the podcasts here on iTunes – Link & to subscribe to the MAKE podcast in iTunes – click here. Congrats to Bre who tirelessly makes a new video each week and […]
MP4 | Hi-Def | Blip | Youtube | PDF | Subscribe This weekend, make a secret compartment book project that you can give as a gift. This project is perfect for valuables or you could customize the compartment to fit a gift exactly. Sponsored by Ponoko: Ponoko is a new concept that’s perfect for Makeziners. […]
First you’ll want to mix up some glue and mix it up 50/50 with water to make it runny. Then use a brush to brush on the glue around the edges and stack it up on some books so that the book doesn’t warp. I used a plastic bag to keep the glue away from […]
MP4 | Hi-Def | Blip | Youtube | PDF | Subscribe In this Weekend Projects podcast I’ll walk you through the different parts of the hardware on the reprap. You’ll want to take a look at the pdf for parts lists and more detailed info to get started on the hardware for this project. The […]
Here’s what the underside of the bot looks like. You can see the iron pipes that work as a base, the lasercut platforms, and the skate bearings that make it move silky smooth. Zach of the Reprap foundation has done a lot of work to get ordering the Repstrap’s parts organized. He’s put together a […]
MP4 | Hi-Def | Blip | Youtube | PDF | Subscribe This week, take the first step towards making your own self-replicating rapid-prototyping robot! You can order up your boards, from the Reprap foundation or make your own since the whole project is open source. Get your parts and solder these up and test them! […]
