This weekend the MakeMobile was on the tarmac at the NASA Ames Research Center for Yuri’s Night, a massive global celebration of Yuri Gagarin’s first flight into space. 211 parties were held across the globe, and even the astronauts on the International Space Station had one! The Bay Area event featured two days of educational […]
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories is at it again! The time they’ve made extrusion (spritz) plates for cookies that mimic electron probability clouds. These atomic cookies are sure to be a big hit at your next quantum mechanics-themed party!
And they’re pretty much made the same way now, too! Machine Knits Socks by the Yard on Modern Mechanix. [via Braincraft] More: Antique Sock Knitting Machines at Maker Faire Austin – CRAFT Video Podcast
Many of you may have seen Becky’s Make: Online post about John Young’s clever p8tch system from a couple years ago. Now we’re excited to announce that John has recently opened a store selling them in the Makers Market. When you buy a p8tch, you get a velcro-backed waterproof patch, in one of several cool […]
Hannah Perner-Wilson writes about her embroidered potentiometers: Made using the zig-zag stitch on the sewing machine to sew/embroider a conductive and a resistive trace side by side. Then any conductive object can be used to bridge the contact between the traces and measure the position/distance from measuring point through the change in resistance. In the […]
This video from youtube user pixelcutter is rad. It is beautiful to see what a pair of human hands can create with straight-up tangled trash.
Alicia Gibb has curated a show of Arduino-based artwork, based on the work of her master’s thesis, and it’ll be this Saturday in NYC! I’ll have an interactive embroidery piece in the show, and head over to the NYC Resistor site for a sneak peek at the work. Art, Design, and the Arduino: a lineage […]
