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You’ve seen tons of cool openFrameworks projects here on MAKE over the years. If you haven’t heard about this open source creative coding toolkit, you should. If you’re in NYC this weekend, there’s going to be a workshop on using openFrameworks at Parsons tomorrow: This DT Dorkshop will be lead by Parsons MFA Design + […]
With the iPad, a stand is even more of a necessity than it is with other mobile products. This low-tech iPad stand by Brett, a 10-year-old maker from New Jersey, displays the ingenuity you’re likely to see a lot more of through daily use.
Scratch – the educational programming app was removed from iTunes store – Here’s a post from the Scratch forums – …Apple has banned all third party software from creating ipod apps. What they did to scratch was nothing compared to what they did to Adobe. Flash CS5’s biggest feature was the ability to make flash […]
From the FORM group. [Thanks, Cat Rocketship!]
For iPhones, unauthorized repair shops flourish @ The NYTimes… Brendan McElroy’s living room in an apartment on the top floor of an East Village walk-up is crowded with anxious patients, each one jiggling a knee, or gnawing on a fingernail or lip. Mr. McElroy, right, at work on Nico Sterlacci’s iPhone in Mr. McElroy’s Manhattan […]
I’ve written before about how much I wish all the junk-art I see was as awesome as Jud Turner’s. You may recall the stunning mecha-trilobite he made from cast aluminum bones and various scrap metal findings and/or the skeletal Bio-Cycle we posted about last year. Shown here are two new works: Uppermost, Hallucination Engine, and Greedeater, the latter of which I know will find a place in Becky’s heart, at least, because it incorporates her spirit animal. Hi Becky! BTW, did you get that e-mail I sent about how much I love your new haircut?
What? Oh, sorry folks. Anyway, Jud Turner is awesome. Check out his online gallery.
Wired just posted a gallery of multipod robots which is, somewhat embarrassingly, headlined with “Robo Spiders,” in spite of the fact that almost all of them are hexapods. Looks like somebody over there needs a robobiologist to help them distinguish roboinsects from roboarachnids. Still, interesting browsing for the robophilic. Shown above is a rendering of an evil military spy-derbot that UK defense giant BAE Systems will probably never actually build.
