Maker Faire veteran Paul Nosa is up to some tour planning for 2012. He’d like to travel around the nation to public art walks, embroidering the imaginations of passers by with his solar and bike powered sewing machine build onto an aluminum rover that also displays his creations. Paul’s seeking funding on Kickstarter to bring solar sewing to a town near you. In the video above, watch him sew the entire tour route!
The latest print edition of The Economist has an article of makers, MAKE, Maker Faire, and the growing maker movement. It’s so great to see a head/subhead like this in any mainstream magazine, let alone one with such gravitas in the business world: More than just digital quilting — Technology and society: The “maker” movement could change how science is taught and boost innovation. It may even herald a new industrial revolution.
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Our featured image from the MAKE Flickr pool this week is Pete Prodoehl’s lovely shot of his MakerGear Prusa Mendel printer frame. It looks like a piece of pricey Danish furniture! It was a hard choice, for me, between that and Rob Hopeless’s photograph of the transparent Venus de Milo bust he recently printed on his homemade stereolithography system.
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Opabinia Regalis was a Precambrian creature that has been reborn as a a fire spewing art bike. Crafted by Kurt Pires, this extinct animal on wheels makes the rounds at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 while being used as a teaching tool for fossil history. http://www.bobbiepires.com/opa/ http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/5172
