Made On Earth — Cardboard Shredder
Mike Sheldrake’s boards are just fiberglass skin over computer-cut cardboard.
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“Do-It-Yourself Guru Makes Treasures From Trash”
Our friend and author Tim Anderson on NPR…. “Do-It-Yourself Guru Makes Treasures From Trash”… In the world of do-it-yourselfers, Tim Anderson is a rock star. His 1983 Datsun pickup truck runs on bio-diesel, and he’s not above Dumpster diving. His only income-producing gig at the moment is writing a column for Make magazine about forgotten […]
Mark’s fabbed violin
Mark has been working on variations of this electric violin for a few months now at the Boston Fab Lab. For Friday’s Learn 2 Teach Project Exposition, he got it into a playable condition and demonstrated it to visitors at the South End Technology Center. He used Open Office Draw to design the files, and […]
A month of hackerspaces
Bilal is heading off for a month-long adventure exploring the hackerspaces of America. We will be documenting the projects they make, and recording the change inducing social movement that’s spreading across the USA. Maker/Hackerspaces come in all sorts of packages and flavors, each with it’s own quirks. Let’s figure out how they tick, what goes […]
Designs to deal with the rising tides
The terrific blog Inhabitat has an intriguing article about the winning entries in the Rising Tides competition, wherein entrants came up with ways to deal with what could be a 55″ rise in the San Francisco Bay waters in the next century. From Inhabitat’s recap: Another mind-boggling solution to the high-water mark is Folding Water, […]
Captain Yo brings the yo-yos
All photo by Ed Troxell There are good days and bad days here at the MAKE offices. Mostly good, although sometimes the days can be long and very, very busy — like 2 days before the next issue goes to the printer or a week before Maker Faire. The day Captain Yo came to visit […]
World’s most beautiful vise
Only a handful of these “pilot wheel” engraver’s vises were custom made by the late John Madole. The wheel is turned to tighten or loosen the massive ball joint, allowing the user to set the precision jaws at any convenient angle. Information is scanty, but there’s a couple more pics here at Lindsay Airgravers.
