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Sean Michael Ragan
I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.
Latest from Sean Michael Ragan
11/29/2010
This “50% sawdust” project from Israel’s Kulla design involves mixing equal parts sawdust and shredded plastic bags in a mold...
11/29/2010
EdenTXlocation.jpgBack in 2008, I wrote a series of posts about Alvin E. Gandy's 1965 patent "Gandy Slide-A-Way" mechanical gate opener,...
11/29/2010
It's probably not much good against the rain, but this handy bit of urban fieldcraft from YouTuber sumitsumit would be...
11/28/2010
An inverting or tippe top is a classic physics toy: a spinning top that spontaneously inverts itself to spin on...
11/26/2010
It took five years, but a reader--specifically Flickr user Tom Arthur--finally figured out the secret feature we designed into the...
11/25/2010
And you can watch it happen in this literally awesome video from the BBC's Bang Goes the Theory. I wonder...
11/24/2010
Probably not all doors should offer previews, all the time, but this is undeniably wonderful. As it is, the knob...
11/24/2010
I built one of these years ago from plans I saw in Slocum and Botterman's New Book of Puzzles, and...
11/23/2010
OK, almost no moving parts. Practically no moving parts. I never expected to be able to appreciate my cheap Wal-Mart...
11/23/2010
A month ago, I blogged about Ron Doerfler's beautiful Age of Graphical Computing calendar for 2010, lamenting the fact that...
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