This Week in Making: Lego Tape, A Bottle-Flipping Robot, Lab Grown Chicken Strips, and More
Tape that can make any surface Lego compatible, a bottle flipping robotic arm, and lab grown chicken strips? It’s been a good week.
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Catching Up with Josef Prusa at the SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards
Josef Prusa shares his enthusiasm with us at SXSW, where he was nominated for an Interactive Innovation Award.
Gigabot Proves Even 3D Printing is Bigger in Texas
After their wildy successful first Kickstarter back in 2013, re:3D’s latest iteration of Gigabot, an extra large 3D printer, is Open Gigabot, which currently has two days left on its Kickstarter campaign. The Open Gigabot files are being released on Wevolver, a social enterprise for open source hardware. Make: spoke with re:3D Co-Founder Katy Jeremko about the ecological inspiration behind the […]
Dremel Captivates SXSW With Tiny Cars, Jimmy DiResta
The Create section of SXSW gets more engaging every year, and the Dremel booth was one of the busiest spots inside the tent this year, offering numerous hands-on activities and even bringing a high-caliber builder to help inspire the attendees. The Dremel team came out in force, displaying a variety of cutting tools alongside […]
Building-Sized Vending Machine Drops Doritos On Demand
A Raspberry Pi is at the heart of the world’s largest vending machine, which is six stories tall and can drop 800 bags of chips.
RFID Power Ups Transform Go-karting Into Mario Karting
MAKE’s Matt Richardson gets a behind-the-scenes look at how Penzoil and Nintendo created a real-life experience inspired by the popular MarioKart video game.
The Magic of Making: Engaging Students as Makers
Here is a video of my 2013 Distinguished Speaker talk at SXSW EDU in Austin, TX. In this talk, I wanted to contrast formal and informal learning, and point out that informal learning is a kind of magic.
