Flight of Fancy
Kazuhiko Hachiya mines cartoons for his real-world inventions.
Makers
Crib Notes
Modding a baby crib for disabled parents.
Trouvé Magic
Gustave Trouvé was like Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, and Igor Sikorsky rolled into one.
Giants of the Micros
The two inventors who fueled the rise of the living room helicopter.
Make: Money fundraising program
At the NYC FIRST Robotics Competition this past weekend, we launched an exciting new program to allow FIRST robot teams, and any other group or club, to raise funds by selling subscriptions to MAKE. Here’s how it works: You email your contact information to makemoney@makezine.com (see details on the card above). We send your group […]
DDIY: Don’t do it yourself?
I read recently an article in the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest by Lisa Anne Auerbach called “d.d.i.y. Don’t Do It Yourself:” D.I.Y. used to mean grabbing a Sharpieâ„¢ and starting one’s own revolution through words and actions. Now it means going into debt at mega-stores, consuming more and more materials manufactured overseas, raping the […]
Oomlout’s 3D traffic graph
To celebrate 60 days of web traffic on their site, open source kit makers Oomlout created a tangible graph using an acrylic base, hook-up wire, their automatic wire cutter, and some Arduino code. We’d like to think we had something to do with those long wires. 60 Day Anniversary More: Review: SERB Robot kit SERB […]
