Hack Junk’s Seattle Power Tool Race entry
Dave and Dave from Hack Junk decided, sort of at the last minute, to enter the recent Seattle Power Tool Race and Derby. The video documents their build and their two race attempts. Hack Junk
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“Tweetjects”? Noooooo….
In this BBC piece, an IBM engineer on the Isle of Wight, shows off the 16th century thatched cottage that he’s wired with sensors and connected to Twitter. In the article that accompanies the video, he uses a term he’s apparently coined for objects that tweet: “tweetjects.” I’m here to try and stage a lexicographical […]
Student-made equipment in the Pratt metal shop
My pal Ross Connard is a Junior at the Pratt Institute and has a student job as a technician in the school’s Fine Arts Metal Shop. The shop has a cool tradition of students building their own equipment and leaving it behind for subsequent generations of students to use. Shown above is a custom stencil […]
Money to burn
Well, to laser-etch, anyway. Brooklyn tattoo artist Scott Campbell makes these laser-cut stacks of $1 bills. Recently shown at a gallery in Miami, the stacks are part of a collection called “Make it Rain.” Thanks to Billy Baque for the heads-up.
Climbing a building with “vacuum gloves”
MAKE subscriber Matthew Sylvester sent us this video of BBC TV presenter Jem Stansfield seeming to climb the side of one of the broadcaster’s buildings using a very funky homemade contraption based on a vacuum cleaner. The “stunt” was done as a promo for the upcoming BBC show Bang Goes the Theory [cough… Mythbusters]. And […]
Capillary action colors calendar in real time
Artist Oscar Diez created this amazing calendar, made of different types of paper and special inks, which is carefully designed to slowly color in the days of the month by capillary action, in real time, over the course of each month. Via Boing Boing.
Robot safe-cracker
Carlos found this little safe in the trash. It’s got stuff locked away inside. He wants in, but doesn’t want to destroy the safe. So he created a Pololu Micro Serial Servo Controller-powered, servo-controlled, robot safe-cracker, house in an old PC power supply. The results? So far: safe: 1, bot-cracker: 0. Turns out, the servo […]