And we’re back with our twenty-first installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Inspired by the video explaining how artificial eyes are made, James B shared his technique: I make something like this using borosilicate glass, only more as a creepy decoration. […]
And we’re back with our twentieth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. After reading the embossed metal box from beverage can how-to, nathan.f77 made this awesome box: Heres my attempt at one. I really enjoyed making it, thanks for the great […]
Nathan Patterson, aka Thingiverse user pattywac, has organized a pair of user-funded design contests and is soliciting entries and prize donations for each. The first, with a current prize pool of $100US, is to design the cleverest MakerBot-able object that incorporates a rubber band. Two of my favorite entries so far are shown above.
The second contest, to design the most useful improvement for the MakerBot itself, is also ongoing, and currently has a prize pool of $65US. Both contests end on Sunday, November 14. [Thanks, Nathan!]
And we’re back with our nineteenth installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online, our Facebook page, and Twitter. On Facebook, R. Joe Brandon had a great idea for what to do with the giant cameras: Now attach it to a kite a’la George Lawrence! 1lowlife wrote in […]
Steve Coast, founder of OpenStreetMap, is going to doing some authoring for us on this unique, editable world map project. Steve started OSM in 2004 and has been deeply involved in it ever since. He lives in Denver with his wife, where he also enjoys hang gliding and collecting hammers. – Gareth Branwyn OpenStreetMappers in […]
Man, what a cool artifact. Not $7,500 cool, IMHO, as I can appreciate it just fine from the photo over at Wright Auctions, but to each his or her own. [via Core77]
Via No Tech Magazine comes a link to a digital version of this wonder 1896 bicycle treatise Bicycles & tricycles; an elementary treatise on their design and construction, with examples and tables,” from Archibald Sharp (1896).
