G4 did a pretty decent segment on steampunk, centered on our friends at Abney Park and current MAKE cover spokesgentleman Jake von Slatt. I like Morgan Webb’s description of it as “Goth for engineers.” [Note to Steampunk Haters: Scroll along, nothing to see here. Same old, same old.] From MAKE magazine: Check out MAKE, Volume […]
MAKE subscriber Pete Marchetto pointed us to this awesome site covering all manner of backyard metal casting. In fact, that’s its name: Backyard Metal Casting. Peter writes: Blame Kaden Harris. He got me onto this wonderful site describing many metal casting and metalworking projects. Okay, Kaden. It’s all your fault we’re posting this link. You […]
Photo from The Boston Globe A few years ago a dragon turned up down the street. Chuck Nudd had spent some winter months concocting a behemoth animatronic dragon from some cast off steel junk. It started out as a dinosaur, but morphed into a dragon as the design came out. Draco is both wildly popular […]
Public Radio International/WNYC Radio’s The Takeaway has just produced a video offering a glimpse inside of NYC Resistor. Watch as they hack a sack o’ busted iPods and print out giant red grasshopper butterfly hybrids (no, really). The Takeaway
I borked last week’s show 15 minutes into it. Amazingly, we were in the process of talking about failure and embracing it, learning from it. So we kept the episode. Listen to the brief discussion and then hear me muttering to himself as I try to fix my screw-up. Hilarity ensues. So, THIS week, we’ll […]
Our Photo Editor, Sam Murphy, sent us a link to this amazing working Chevy V8 motor model, emailed to her by her dad (thanks, dad!). The model engineer is Jim Moyer, and he has several breathtaking models on his site. This V8 is 1/6th scale, based on the 1964 327 cu. in. Corvette engine. The […]
After the success of the Makers & Hackers event in the UK, the folks behind it where invited to do something for the upcoming Milano Green Art Festival in Milan during the Milan Furniture Fair. They want to make a bunch of cool lamps out of junk and existing lamps and are holding a one […]
