Reader Erica points out this story about a resourceful British maker – A British businessman fed up with being targeted by vandals has installed a 30-foot Roman-style catapult on the premises to hurl bucket loads of chicken manure at culprits attacking his rural offices. […] The defense arrangements, which include priming the catapult with chicken […]
Robot-turned-Synthmaker Stanley gives an awesomely quirky video demo of his new sound-making device. (WARNING: contains a little cursing, smoking, and lovable condescension) Stanley Povoda, the worldfamous “Robot Man” is now creating all kinds of sound-devices for Metamorphosis. He built countless robots in his life and just recently decided to take again a more musical direction, […]
Mike Disher makes custom acrylic turntables – About 5 years ago I decided to try my hand at building a custom turntable. Turntables and mechanical watch and clock movements fascinate me. I view them as functional pieces of kinetic art. I based my turntable design on the legendary Rega P3, and I created a new, […]
Makers – A short-subject documentary about the Do-It-Yourself Counterculture from Brian Boyko on Vimeo. Makers documentary [via]
J. Eric Townsend, of Dorkbot Pittsburgh, wanted to make sure folks here knew about their March meeting: March 20, 2008, 7:30-9:30pm. They meet at Brillobox, located at 4104 Penn Ave (at Main) in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA. Jia Ji, Touchtown. Jia is the Director of Product Management for Dancetown, a dance-based digital fitness […]
Tuesday, 25 March 2008 7 PM – 9 PM (ET) ALWAYS FREE! Location: Smith Hall of Art, Room 114 George Washington University 801 22nd St NW Washington, DC 20037 Tom Lee : Cheaper Arduino Wifi Bringing ethernet connectivity to the Arduino for around fifty dollars, Lady Ada’s XPort Shield has gotten people understandably excited. But […]
Chris McDonald made this extra-great, 2-axis drawing machine for doing time-lapse photography.
