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Machinist Bob Schneeveis made the Solar Electric Robot Chariot. Powered by the sun, the chariot is pulled by an anatomic machine that walks on wheels to lengthen its stride. Machined almost completely out of metal, the mechanics of this art car are driven by Grant Grundler at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/5217
British company BCB has developed what is essentially a potato cannon on steroids. Called the Wall Breaker, this pneumatically charged cannon launches water cooler bottles at 984 feet per second.
Need to break through concrete in a hostage situation? No problem. Want to rip a giant hole through a cargo van. They have you covered.
This was developed for the British military, so I’m not sure we’ll be seeing a consumer version available anytime soon. Impressive all the same.
Over the years a common question I get asked is “Why New York City”? And “Why run a business there it’s so hard/expensive/crazy/weird/intense” – “just move to Vegas, no taxes!” – and that’s what this week’s SOAPBOX column is all about – “If You Can Make It In NYC… You Can Make It Anywhere”. I’m going to talk about why I think this is the best city, for me, for now, to run a business – my goal is article is for the maker businesses out there from one person to many, to post up in the comments on why THEIR city is the best city to run a maker business. Let’s get started.
I had a sense, as early as Tuesday, that it was going to be a yellow kind of week, and sure enough, the MAKE Flickr pool has proved it out. And though yellow has lots of negative connotations, it happens to be my favorite color, probably because it reminds of me construction equipment and power tools. Oh, and flowers. I have credible reports from people who have actually seen nature that flowers are sometimes yellow, too.
Readers sometimes ask what sites / authors the MAKE team has in “Maker playlist”, TJ was just added to mine! It’s very cool to see Forbes writing about the Maker movement too!
The man behind the world’s largest Tesla coil (the 30,000-watt Electrum) is once again upping the ante on machine-generated lightning. Greg Leyh and his group Lightning On Demand (LOD) have launched a new a project, The Lightning Foundry, that will try to re-create super-long discharge effects normally found only in lightning.
Traveling with Entrepreneur Magazine in 2011 we’ve interviewed some of the brightest innovators all across the U.S.A. We decided to bring them all together in this short film.
