Del Hatch, who was at the Faire last year showing off his Mendocino Solar Motor, made a big splash again this year with his chess playing robot, which uses an off-the-shelf sensory chess board and robot arm together with the open-source chess engine GNUChess.
Matthias Wandel, whose Marble Adding Machine was featured in MAKE: Volume 20 and whose homemade bandsaw appeared on Make: Online last month, is up to his usual shenanigans with a modular marble run featuring an excellent marble pump. Interested in building your own? Wandel is selling the plans for fourteen bucks. [Thanks, Don!]
Logan Austeja Daniel, Martin Azevedo, and biochemist/jeweler/entrepreneur Raven Hanna of Made With Molecules are the brains behind this beautiful deck of Tarot cards with scientific themes. Suits were commissioned from five different artists: Janelle Schneider (Wands), Kristy Whitehouse (Pentacles), Shari Arai DeBoer (Swords), Tammy Stellanova (Cups), and Kris Johnson Michiels (Major Arcana). The deck’s gonna be available for sale soon, but the exact date is TBA. You can sign up to be notified by e-mail here.
From designer Nathan Tobiason, whose slightly iffier screw chair I hit this morning.
Can’t afford a plane ticket this year, so I’m having to leave way early. Gonna stop at a gas station every mile, along the way, and buy fresh C-cells. See ya in five days!
Dustin Wallace, whose bottle-opener ring for bartenders I blogged recently, has released the third figure in his series of fold-up water-jet-cut sci-fi “Robotagami” models. You can fold it yourself, or he’ll fold it for you. [Thanks, Dustin!]
MAKE pal I-Wei Huang, aka Crabfu, was a contributor to the current issue of MAKE, Volume 22. We picked his brain for my “Remote Control State of the Art” piece and he reviewed the amazing Killer Krawler, from RC4WD, for the “Toolbox” section. We asked him to toss some more cool R/C content our way […]
