Make: Live airs tonight! Don’t miss our bikes episode where guests Nick Normal and William Thomas Porter join us with pedal-powered projects. We’ll also be giving away some tools from Digi-Key to one lucky member of the chat. Giveaway prizes: 148 Piece tool set LED flashlight Make: Live 06 – Bikes, Basics to Extremes Wednesday […]
OK, so, I’m still just a bit fuzzy on how Oklahama City resident Mike Koehler’s delightfully hare-brained scheme is “for America,” but I’m prepared to get behind pretty much any initiative to build a “fully functional, full-scale” model of the original Imperial walker. The initiative could be called “AT-AT for Azerbaijan,” and the only really important question, to me, would remain: “We’re going to build a life-size working AT-AT, right?” Also: “Does fully functional include the head-mounted laser blasters?”
Since the first moment Satya Kraus saw a motorcycle as a child, he has been obsessed. He turned that obsession into Kraus Motor Co. and now builds intricate handmade machines in his workshop under the California redwoods. Kraus Motor Co. will be at Maker Faire Bay Area, May 21 & 22, where you can meet […]
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw:
Viscous Fingering from nervous system.
DIY Vacuum Pickup fromdrug123.
I don’t ? spurious oscillations fromRob Cruickshank.
IMG_0847 fromTimothy J Silverman.
Hirschmann Connector fromanachrocomputer.
Nintendo MAX Synth fromMichaelRucci.
P1100524 fromTimothy J Silverman.
California filmmaker Michael Evans likes to capture the beauty of workflow, what a craftsperson looks like when he or she is deep “in the zone” of their process. This video features the smooth moves of Sean Walling, owner of Soulcraft, a custom steel bicycle frame shop in Petaluma, CA. It documents Sean in the workshop […]
The winner of the best comment out of the 240+ comments on “Which Comic Book Character Is The Greatest Maker Of All Time?” is Martin Hohenberg. Martin, email me pt @ this site to get your prize! SUPERMAN – THE BLACK RING. Here’s what Martin had to say (He thinks Gearloose should have been in […]
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw:
Printed Circuit Bloom from Lenny&Meriel.
Great dodecahemicosahedron from fdecomite.
Pirate Eggs! from Pete Prodoehl.
Angry Bird from dragonflyducky.
Delta Robot Assembled from robhopeless.
Pile-O-LED’s from Giant Eye.
