From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
Wan has a review of this little printer that prints as you move it over things, it wants to be hacked, not sure if it prints on people – “Xyron Design Runner lets you print ANYWHERE…check out the FirstLook, FirstUse, and the video. The only thing we need is for them to upgrade the reader […]
Gallery of Soviet-era gadgets and devices, the four transistor transistor radio kit is really nice – [via] – Link.
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Rautiocination writes – “Artpainter stands for adaptive resonance theory painter, also known as the painting machine. This device takes user input through a website and local tablet pc’s, which it then “learns” through system of neural networks. The machine then improvizes using what it has learnt.” – Link.
Nemo Gould makes incredible kinetic, robot sculptures made from recycled materials – check out the gallery and the videos – Link.
Peter writes “I took an antique clock, and replaced the gearwork with a computer controlled servo, hooked it to the internet to get the weather forcast, and replaced the numbers on the face of the clock with icons, so now it tells the weather instead of the time! I used a fake antique (replica) that […]
The Exploratorium has a simple how to on making a telescope using reading glasses – “You’re about to make a telescope. One lens of the reading glasses will serve as the objective lens of the telescope–the lens that gathers light from stars or other objects. The magnifying glass will be the eyepiece. This telescope won’t […]
A MAKE reader sent this in, lots of alcohol breathalyzer projects seem to be in the works lately, here’s how to make an alcohol breathalyzer and a flame thrower – “The Breath of Fire is the marriage of an alcohol breathalyzer and a flame thrower. A Basic Stamp takes a reading from a alcohol sensor […]
