Here’s a video of my visit to the 2008 National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Purdue University last month. It was a lot of fun to hear the participants talk about their creations and to see them running their machines. Not since the classic 1982 video game BurgerTime has the task of making a burger […]
“Pandimensional importer/exporter” Molly “Porkshanks” Friedrich will be showing off some of her otherworldly wares in the Contraptors’ Lounge at the Maker Faire next weekend. When not winking in and out of the spacetime continuum, Molly fashions really cool wearable art/jewelry and retro-futuristic gadgetry and sells them via Dangerous Detritus. [Photo of Molly by Libby Bulloff, […]
Next Tuesday there will be two events at ASU which should be interesting to us maker-folks. One is the exhibition from the Vizproto class, which is about 3D visualization and rapid prototyping in an arts context. Projects range from robot chassis to RFID tags embedded in acorns (above photo) and used in interactive installations to […]
One of the most enthusiastic responses we’ve ever gotten to a Make: Blog post was for the video of French radio ham Claude Paillard’s built from scratch vacuum tubes. If you haven’t seen the video yet, you’re in for a real treat. It still triggers passionate and effusive praise, such as this comment from a […]
At first glance, Stanford’s Cool Products Expo looked like a regular college career fair. That is, until I saw the solar-powered car, tilting trike, Tesla car and BMW’s hydrogen car parked on the lawn. Inside the packed hall, instead of suits touting companies there were dozens of, well, cool products. They ranged from a design […]
Today I attended the annual National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest finals at Purdue University. This year the task was to make a hamburger in no less than 20 steps, and the Purdue Armory was full of great, laboriously contrived burger-making machines. I had the opportunity to interview quite a few of the participants, so look […]
We make money not art has a piece about a retrospective on Ant Farm, the American media art collective from the 1970s. Ant Farm is most famous for their Cadillac Ranch installation in Amarillo, Texas. I had the pleasure of meeting and becoming friends with Ant Farm co-founder Doug Michels in the early ’90s. He […]
