Hacking Club-Mate
A popular hacker energy drink gets homebrewed.
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Kid Robot
Young makers are seizing breakout opportunities on the wild frontier of Detroit.
Zoho Artform #4
If I were forced to pick only one personal favorite of all the cool stuff I’ve blogged about while working for Make: Online, it would probably be Mark Ho’s original Zoho Artform figure. This is his latest version, made mostly from aluminum and available in ten anodized colors. I have no idea what they cost, and I’m sure I don’t really want to know, but I’d love to see more machinists following in Mark’s footsteps and making pure “machined art.”
Beautiful, unusual model engine runs, baffles experts
Nederlander Jan Ridders, who is something of a legend in the model engineering world, built what he calls his Thermo Pulse Mobile without really understanding how it works, basing his model solely on a YouTube video demonstrating another one in operation. At first it didn’t work. Then…
Makers Dozen: Detroit
Here’s a small portion of the fun and unusual things you’ll find at Maker Faire Detroit. A Different Kind of Hybrid If I said that there was guy who built a hybrid windmobile coming to Maker Faire Detroit, you’d have every reason to expect that he’d designed a futuristic car. You’d be right, except that […]
Maker Birthdays: Gary Gygax
Today, in 1938, Ernest Gary Gygax was born in Chicago, IL. He would go on to create a gaming and publishing empire, built on math-driven storytelling and gem-like Platonic solids dice (co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons). Anybody who’s ever played Dungeons & Dragons will know why Gary Gygax is suited to be […]
Trippy Treehotel
The Treehotel opened recently in Harads, Sweden. It currently consists of four structures: the Cabin, the Blue Cone, the Nest, and the Mirrorcube (see here). Two additional structures are scheduled to open in October: the UFO and A Room with a View. Treehotel