In honor of Robot Day here on MAKE, I’ve posted my “Rules for Roboticists,” from my 2004 book Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Building Robots. It’s a playful list of operating principles, rules of thumb, and words o’ wisdom about bot building. The piece is accompanied by robot scientist “trading cards,” illustrated by Mark Frauenfelder, for […]
Wired’s Clive Thompson has a piece about how makers might revive American innovation (with a MAKE mention) he writes – What a mess. I’m sitting on the floor of my apartment, surrounded by electronic parts, a cigar box, a soldering gun, and stray bits of wire. I’m trying to build my own steampunk-style clock — […]
PingMag has an interview with Nobuyoshi Nagahara, a Japanese pen nib craftsman who’s been on the job for 50 years: PingMag: You must need a lot of patience to deal with each customer with such care. Nobuyoshi Nagahara: The thing that makes me most happy doing this work is being able to help people with […]
Lovely Da Vinci-esque hand-cranked fantasy vehicle by Pablo Lavezzari. Kinetic Art – [via] Link
Kevin Kelly has an awesome little piece on Geekdad about what he calls “subterranean tutoring.” This excerpt explains the concept by way of example: Science fiction author Neal Stephenson once told me something memorable as we were hanging out in his back yard. He pointed to an unfinished kayak under a tarp. He said he […]
The folks at Kinetic Steam Works show Xeni around the shop in this latest issue of BBtv. Kinetic Steam Works: artifacts of clockwork modernity. – Link
The Space Channel in Toronto, Canada is featuring Eccentric Cubicle author Kaden Harris this weekend. Catch him on the Space Channel’s HypaSpace Weekly, a weekly entertainment news program about the world of science fiction and fantasy with “insightful features on movies, television, books, comics, video games and community events.” It airs Saturday, February 9th at […]
