Giant Lego minifigs invade Kansas City
Michael Curry designed and printed these 4x sized Lego men for Christmas gifts this year
Digital Fabrication
Digital fabrication tools have revolutionized the way designers, engineers, and artisans express their creativity. With the right resources, you can learn to use these powerful instruments in no time! Whether it’s 3D printing or laser cutting that interests you, these articles will provide useful tutorials and inspiration for makers of all levels. Discover how digital fabrication can open up new possibilities so that your craftsmanship is truly extraordinary!
World’s first store for 3D printed goods
World’s first store for 3D printed goods… .MGX, Materialise’s high end design label for 3D printed furniture and lamps, just opened the world’s first physical store for 3D printed goods. The .MGX Flagship store is in Brussels’ exclusive Sablon district. At the store people can look at and explore .MGX’s lighting and other collections. In the future .MGX […]
LasercutChristmas classroom project in development
The original idea came from the work of several of my students in the Fashioning Tech class. Sam and Brooke were cutting images that they found online, and saw that the heavy black lines made image contours, which cut as a continuous line. What they saw as a horrible mistake, I thought looked really neat, and suggested they carefully glue the image outline to a backing sheet. They were hand cutting the background sheet, but it looks much more polished if they use the laser to cut the outline shape on the laser
21st century Christmas gift making
My son Blake and I always try to make something to give our family for Christmas. In the late ’90s, we were quite proud of the packing/box art (inset) we made for some handmade (not by us) ornaments we gave out. We found one of these boxes in the attic this year and it looks […]
Printing transistors using a 3D printer
This seems pretty amazing- Mr.Kim and John Sarik used a 3d printer configured as a plotter to print their own transistors.
3D printable micro-hexapod
Thingiverse user Ijon’s 3-servo hexapod looks pretty sweet! I can’t wait to see the project evolve. For instance, I’d love to see it with the battery pack and micro controller carried on-board.
Incredible electronic bronze brain sculptures
Alex Schlegel made these two neuroscience-themed self portraits based on a model of his actual brain cast in bronze. Alex writes: This self-portrait is a life-sized, anatomically-correct bronze cast of my cerebral cortex. Embedded on the surface of the cortex is a cluster of 60 flickering, yellow LEDs resembling the statistical parametric maps used in […]
