McNally Jackson Will Soon Be Printing Books While You Wait @ The New York Observer… By the time 2011 rolls around, Nolita’s McNally Jackson Books will have an Espresso Book Machine, the Xerox-like on-demand device that prints a fully bound book in mere minutes. Currently McNally will order a book for a customer if a […]
Todd writes in – Longtime reader. Just wanted to pass along a little project I just had made. I have always loved this design from supposed Time Traveler John Titor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor). I used Etsy’s Alchemy service to have it laser cut out of wood. I think it turned out wonderfully. Even if the story was […]
It used to be that if you wanted anything other than “stock” miniatures for your games, you had to laboriously customize or scratch-build each unit by hand. Now, if you can use Blender, you can design, pose, and print your army and have them shipped to you, ready to paint.
Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid We’re happy to announce that Make: Online’s very own editor-in-chief, Gareth Branwyn, was recently interviewed by SyFy for their Eureka Idea Lab. Here’s a snippet: Pick one: personal jetpack, warp drive, or Lee Majors-level bionic implants? Well, I already have an artificial hip, a rebuilt heart, and get […]
This is fascinating. If hackerspaces can buy an $8,000 laser cutter, why not send a satellite into orbit? Interorbital Systems (IOS) says it can deploy 32 tiny satellites simultaneously from a rocket launched from the Pacific island of Tonga. The price? A measly 8 grand. Planet Earth has entered the age of the Personal Satellite […]
Researchers at Tokyo University have come up with a technology that they hope could be a significant step away from the mouse and keyboard: touchable holograms. Hiroyuki Shinoda, professor at Tokyo University says: “Up until now, holography has been for the eyes only, and if you’d try to touch it, your hand would go right […]
Hal Chaffee, VP – President Emeritus, Association of Professional Model Makers (APMM), was kind enough to send us links to this keynote address that Neil Gershenfeld delivered at the 2010 APMM Conference, this past spring. As you probably know, Neil is the director of the Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) at MIT and the […]
