Puzzle table bases
These glueless interlocking table bases based on burr puzzles are from Bulgarian architect Petar Zaharinov. I discovered them while perusing last year’s entries to the Nob Yoshigahara Puzzle Design Competition.
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Bill Gurstelle in Popular Mechanics
Congrats to MAKE Contributing Editor Bill Gurstelle for his “Gonzo Engineering” profile in the June issue of Popular Mechanics. “We’ll be doing some flinging before long,” says the man in the jumpsuit, William Gurstelle, the catapult’s builder. On one side of the machine’s central fulcrum hangs a counterweight filled with 400 pounds of rocks and […]
Match-heads
David Mach, whose coathanger gorilla we hit on Friday, also makes these pretty amazing sculptures from matches with the heads arranged to colorize the surface. Just, you know, keep away from open flame. [via Dude Craft]
Bees in the Bell Jar
A bell jar was placed on top of a mini hive and bees from the nucleus started to create foundation of a hive in the jar. Once the foundation is laid, the bees work in masses to form the rest of the hive. Bees Makes Hive In A Jar More: Bee coverage in MAKE
Matchbook Portraits by 0H10M1ke
Yesterday at Figment, a participatory arts event on Governor’s island in New York City, Nick Normal and I met 0H10M1ke, who draws 1 minute portraits of strangers on matchbooks and hands them out. I thought it was such a sweet idea! He’s been doing it for a long time; Nick and I got portraits numbered […]
Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show – Maker Faire edition
Here’s the second episode of our favorite new show, Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show. In this installment, the super-awesome Sylvia explores this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area (and does projects she learned at the Faire!). Keep up the inspiring work, Sylvia! Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show: Episode 02 – Part 1, Maker Faire 2010 More: Sylvia’s Super-Awesome […]
Chris Schaie’s mechanical irises for sale
When I first saw Chris’s gorgeous brass-and-wood irising door peephole mechanism in the ShopBot booth at Maker Faire, I knew it was something special: A beautiful piece of machinery, designed and built solely for the pleasure of operating and observing its operation. When Chris contacted us wanting to sell them in the Makers Market, naturally I was excited, but I was also a bit skeptical. I couldn’t imagine that such a large, relatively complex machine of solid brass and wood could be manufactured and sold at anything like a reasonable price point. But the $285 Chris is now asking, while certainly not cheap, is about 40% of what I was expecting to see when I clicked on his listing. I will be surprised if he can afford to continue selling them at that price. Which is why I already bought mine.
