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Excerpt from intersystem comm logs, 2025

Excerpt from intersystem comm logs, 2025

Eric Brown and co-workers at the University of Chicago have just published their design for an entirely non-anthropomorphic robot gripper based on the “jamming” principle. The gripper consists of a spheroid balloon, filled with dry coffee grounds, which can be filled with air or evacuated through the arm. Adding air expands the balloon and lets the coffee grounds flow freely around an object; withdrawing it contracts the balloons and “jams” the grounds in place around that object.

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Making a Vuvu Gramophone

Ah. Those ubiquitous Vuvuzelas. I don’t watch soccer, don’t own a TV, and I still became overwhelmed with Vuvuzela references and World Cup fever. And in its wake, the world was overwhelmed with the deafeningly-loud 2′ plastic tooters. Now that the matches are over and the world’s attention has moved on, what to do with […]

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Wooden Vespa

Wooden Vespa

Her name is Daniela. Built by Portuguese master craftsman Carlos Alberto and named in honor of his daughter, this faithfully reproduced Vespa motor scooter is hand crafted almost entirely out of laminated hardwood. What’s truely amazing is that it’s an actually fully functioning scooter!

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Skeleton flamingos

Skeleton flamingos

The design on these novelty skeleton flamingos on Amazon looks strikingly identical to the DIY version we saw in the photo tutorial Sean posted last year here on Make: Online. Whattaya think, did this maker go into business to produce these, or was his design duplicated by another? Reader Tim writes: A closer look at […]

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