Make: Live airs tonight! Don’t miss our Karts & Wheels episode where guests Mark Frauenfelder, Jared Ficklin, Nick Raymond and Eric Chu join us with projects from the latest MAKE. We’ll also be giving away some tools from Digi-Key to one lucky member of the chat. We’ll also announce a special code to get 75% […]
Should patented, patent-pending, or copyrighted projects NOT be in MAKE? This is the question that has been raised around Mikal Hart‘s Reverse Geocache Puzzlebox project from MAKE Volume 25. It’s a clever project. Where geocaching is a game of high-tech hide and seek game, with players using GPS to find a hidden “cache” of trinkets, […]
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When you build it together, your learning is amplified – multiplied by the number of hands.
Sung Kim’s father gave him his first skil saw when he was just seven years old. His mother provided him with modeling clay as a safer alternative not long after that. Sung’s grandfather-in-law, ship builder Dean Stevens, left him a coveted collection of hand tools decades later. These influences shaped his abilities as a woodworker, but his desire to create sound formed him into a Maker.
Proto Labs, the "world's fastest custom manufacturer of prototype and low-volume parts" is awarding $100,000 worth of their services to help inventors and creators develop their projects: In 2011 we will award $100,000 in Firstcut CNC machined and/or Protomold injection molded parts to somebody—or more than one person—with a cool idea for a product.
Highlights from the MAKE Flickr pool this week include a pinhole camera built from an eggshell, a collection of beautiful paper models of stellated polyhedra, a giant plush amoeba, a homemade spectroscope, and more!
