Wonderful Maker Faire interview of Adam Savage, conducted by Miles O’Brien, which aired tonight on PBS Newshour. Adam discusses Maker Faire and MAKE, the maker movement, the sad death of shop classes in schools, our current sweet-spot period for hacking the tech in our lives, and the need to embrace a certain degree of danger/risk in learning. A really nice piece.
Ahahaha. Rachel posted these embroidered portraits of Adam and Jaime of MythBusters over on CRAFT. As she points out: “The facial hair and stitched-on gears are fabulous details.” Is that a pile of yarn scraps for Jaime’s beard? MythBusters Embroidered Portraits
Mythbuster’s Grant Imahara built a mascot for Craig Ferguson of CBS’s Late Late Show. PopMech’s Erin McCarthy describes it: Imahara started by replacing the torso of a plastic skeleton with a metal plate that holds two servomotors, two batteries and the control boards. The plan called for the robot’s right arm to lift and point, […]
Mythretirer Adam Savage has a post up this morning on that one Boingy blog about the latest in his lifelong series of personal replicas of Deckard’s handgun from Blade Runner. There’s more shots of the build as well as pictures of the original prop and two of Adam’s earlier replicas. The very first one uses the famous contoured handgrip from Italian toymaker Edison Giocattoli’s TG-105 ‘Super Thur’ ray gun, which also appeared in a prop from Joss Whedon’s Firefly.
MythBusters needs volunteers to attempt another recreation of Archimedes’ legendary solar death ray. David writes – Because it’s been so popular with our viewers, this will be our third attempt at a story called Archimedes Death Ray. The myth is that the [Greek] army defended themselves from invading [Roman] ships by lining the shores with […]
