Maker Birthdays: Nikola Tesla — Master of Lightning
Happy birthday, Nikola Tesla!
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Aspic Ascension: Jell-O mold winners
Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube and Vimeo. Competitors in this year’s Gowanus Studio Space Jell-O Mold Competition brought their best and really wowed the judges (including me!) on a hot night in Brooklyn last month. The grand prize winner was Shelly Sable for […]
Squidgy fat rolls sculpture
Cory “I can spell squidgey however I want” Doctorow points us at Nick Turvey’s Venus, currently on display outside the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. It’s carved urethane foam, coated in rubber, over a stainless steel skeleton, and yields nauseatingly and/or delightfully to the touch. [via Boing Boing]
Maker Faire Detroit: Arduino Skeeball interview
The countdown to Maker Faire Detroit is on! We’re really excited to be bringing the Faire to the home of American making, and we hope you’ll join us at The Henry Ford on July 31 and August 1. We recently caught up with Matthew Switlik of Detroit hackerspace i3 Detroit to chat about what he’s […]
MAKE’s new soc net buttons
As you may have noticed, we now have Email, Digg, Tweet, Facebook, and StumbleUpon buttons on our main blog pages (at the bottom of each post). We’ve had most of these buttons on the permalink blog pages for each post, but not on our main pages. If you like what you see on MAKE, please […]
Turning a hollow spiral candlestick
We’ve talked internally before about the fact that many of us are mesmerized by tutorial videos, even when we know nothing about the subject being demonstrated. I don’t know from woodworking, but I had a great time watching this five-part series on turning a hollow spiral candlestick on a router mill. Okay, so I might […]
Dale talks to Liam Casey about manufacturing in China
Dale continues his excellent Foo Camp video chats, here talking with Liam Casey, whose company acts as an interface between US (mainly tech) companies and the Chinese manufacturing sector. In the O’Reilly Radar piece from which this video is taken, Dale explains: At Foo Camp 2010, I caught up with Liam Casey of PCH International, […]
