AnnMarie Polsenberg Thomas is one of the most playful professors I know — she created a course called The Science of the Circus and she actually learned to juggle and perform circus stunts. She’s designed underwater robots and she also is the creator of something called Squishy Circuits, which she’ll talk about in the interview.
Continuing our Natural Materials theme month coverage today with a pair interesting, entertaining, well-produced YouTube tutorials from a lifetime craftsman in bone. Check ’em out.
Our maker this week is Kyle Machulis, a hardware and software hacker who led the team in making the reverse engineer drivers for the Microsoft Kinect. Kyle is also an avid self-tracker, which means he uses technology to measure different aspects of his health and biology.
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw: “POW!” from lookseeseen, “Creeper” from adopt-a-bot, “The Whisker – firefighters gasmask project” from KoeneoK, “corner joint” from davidrockdan, “2nd-order Voltage-Controlled Filter” from johngineer, “Friday Night Drawbot at the Art Jamboree” from Pete Prodoehl, and “Uber Tripedo Rides Again!” from whymcycles.
We’re at the festival, armed with a livestreaming camera, looking for maker stories amongst the conventional mayhem.
An inspired idea grown in a makerspace can produce retro magic. That’s the message from 8bitlit collaborators Bryan and Adam. In less than two months, they’ve gone from concept through prototyping to small scale production. Their touch-sensitive Mario Brothers-themed pendant lamp is starting to sell. “Da-ding!”
This is an excellent short profile of video game pioneer Ralph Baer. He’s 90 and still inventing.
