Blast From the Past — Workshops, Big and Very Small
Build a stowable mini workshop for modest tasks like lamp rewiring and scissor sharpening and soon you’ll be building your dreams.
Workshop
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the industrial arts from metal and woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing.
Stop motion film of retro video games using household objects
Here’s a really neat stop motion film of retro video games using household objects – [via] – Link. Related: Frogger by PES – Link. Stop motion LEGO video – Link. How King Kong was made…the first one – Link. Stop Motion Animation, the Easy Way – With iStopMotion, making Gumby is less pokey. MAKE 02 […]
Craft Memo review
Crafter Jess Clement fell in love with craftmemo.com, a new site that is a craft record keeping and management tool for projects. She loves it so much, she even wrote up a review for us and shows us how to use the new Craft Memo site as place to inventory all your projects and supplies. […]
The ROBOTS are coming! – 1953
Interesting look back, forward – at robotics and computers from Mechanix Illustrated – 1953 (self-driving cars, robot elephants, prime number crunching computers, automatic factories, automatic sewing machines, self replicating Von Neumann machines) – “Our civilization is being invaded by a horde of mechanical men who are determined to change our way of life. But there’s […]
Tringo – quick review
Last year we posted about virtual world resident Kermitt Quick and a game he made game called “Tringo” in Second Life (an online multiplayer world) – Tringo is like Bingo and Tetris all in one. In the virtual world it was a huge hit, and the game was licensed by a gameboy game publisher, from […]
Workshop — Makin’ Man
Inside a versatile maker’s machine shop.
The Quick and Dirty — Hot Air
Build a do-everything manifold to control, dry, route, and use compressed air.
