Posts Tagged ‘makers’

Here’s a quick and fascinating look at “Robot Self-Assembly by Folding: A Printed Inchworm Robot,” presented at the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. The authors demonstrated a foldable inchworm robot that actually folds itself into shape. The goal is to have all the components placed on the robot’s shrinky-dink surface using a        

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Self-assembling foldable inchworm robots

Click above for full-on grodiness Redditor ImNotJesus has a friend who does her own amateur horror makeup. She’s pretty amazing — check out the ultra-gross fool-the-eye gaping eye-socket wound above. A good friend of mine does horror makeup regularly. What do you guys think?

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Awesome amateur horror makeup

Bryce Phelps made himself a beautiful oak spiral staircase and saved a ton of money by cutting up cheap IKEA oak countertops for the treads: I went with a 4″ steel pipe from the local steel yard buying 18′. Also purchased some angle and flat steel to frame out the stairs. My treads needed to        

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HOWTO make a spiral oak staircase out of cheap IKEA countertops

What better way to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the publication of Watson and Crick’s landmark paper on the double helix structure of DNA than by making your own double-helix out of jellybabies and licorice? Dr Mark Lorch’s method for making edible DNA models promises to capture the “elegant simplicity” of DNA. You’ll need: Two        

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HOWTO make a DNA model out of licorice and jellybabies

Here’s a short and beautiful documentary on Cydwoq’s factory and manufacturing techniques.        

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Documentary on the Cydwoq shoe factory

Rick Prelinger sez, “Our friends at The Greenhorns, a national organization of young farmers, just published the first (and hopefully not the last) edition of their New Farmer’s Almanac, which they call “an entertaining collection of practical advice for farmers and other patriots.” Its 300 pages are full of surprises — field notes from new        

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New Farmer’s Almanac for 2013

Students at the University of Toronto created an Android app for a course project that allows for wireless and intuitive control of a robotic arm from an Android-powered smartphone.        

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Controlling a robot arm with an Android phone

Here’s a great tutorial for making your own glittery superhero paper bracelets out of toilet-paper rolls. The trick is to use blue painter’s tape backing to keep the cardboard intact while it’s all gluey. This may seem like a strange way of doing things – to cut and then stick back together etc – but        

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HOWTO make Wonder Woman bracelets out of toilet paper rolls

Shapeways user Maundy created the Steampunk Geared Cube , a magnificent geared confection that came out of the 3D printed fully assembled!        

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28-geared, 3D-printed cube

Polish leatherworker MK makes some very nice wrist-straps for pocket-watches and car-watches. He’s not the only one making these, but I find them particularly handsome, and rather nice retro-modern take on the massive wristwatch phenomenon. Wristbands for pocket watches. (Thanks, Nic!)        

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Wrist-straps for pocket-watches

Artist Brad McGinty has a new website celebrating the fake history of Glorp Gum, best described as Bazooka Joe by way of Rat Fink.

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Imaginary Glorp Gum becomes a reality! Sort of!

Christian sez, 2012′s Free! Music! Contest has opened it’s gates at july first. It is the fourth time, that this event is being organized by Musikpiraten, a german society that promotes free art and espacially free music. Bands from all over the world participate in it to win a publication on CD, the so called

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Creative Commons music contest: Freedom & Free Beer

This handbill — which can be seen in the British Museum — dates back to the 1650s, and was produced by the first coffee shop in London, in St. Michael’s Alley, Cornhill. It is a simple innocent thing, composed into a drink, by being dryed in an Oven, and ground to Powder, and boiled up

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Coffee ad from the 1650s

A bit of pithy insight from the latest EDRIgram: “the intellectual property lobby employs too many lobbyists and too few strategists.” In other words, Big Content can get lawmakers to do their bidding, even when doing so discredits them and riles up the opposition. (via Beyond the Beyond)

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Too many lobbyists, not enough strategists

In the Boston Globe, Beth Teitell discusses Life at Home in the Twenty-first Century: 32 Families Open their Doors, an accessible, illustrated text that summarizes the research of four archaeologists and anthropologists who did a long, deep study of 32 middle-class LA families, and who report that nearly everything that these families had striven for

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Stuff makes us sad, especially in America

James Losey from New America Foundation sez, The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal, who has estimated how long it would take to read every privacy policy you encounter highlights an interesting bit from the “Linking Policy” in the Terms of Use for the London 2012 website: “a. Links to the Site. You may create your own link

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London Olympic committee says you’re only allowed to link to their site if you have nice things to say

Uber, a spunky startup that’s made a name for itself by using mobile devices to hook up people with rolling stock — starting with an app that let idle limo drivers in San Francisco know about people who couldn’t get a cab due to the city’s notoriously dysfunctional taxi regulations — has a great new

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On-demand ice-cream trucks from Uber

Everyone’s seen the video of Mitt Romney being booed at an address to the NAACP where he promised to kill “Obamacare” (AKA Romneycare). But did he plan on being booed? “He’s not likely to receive many black votes in any case, and boos would allow him to look principled in the face of opposition and

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Romney, the NAACP, and tactical booing

Laurie Penny has a spirited defense of Fifty Shades of Grey, a bestselling pornographic novel that started out as Twilight fanfic (“quite good, quite detailed descriptions of fucking written from the point of view of a woman who seemed to be really enjoying herself”) and looks at the gender issues and double standards lurking in

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What "Fifty Shades of Grey is badly written" is really code for

The Ouya is an Android-based games console design that’s been floated on Kickstarter. It’s done spectacularly well, garnering over $2.3MM in the first day (now closing in on $4MM), far in excess of its target of $950,000. So much money has been raised, in fact, that the project’s founders are now asking supporters for ideas

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Free/open Android-based games console raises $2MM+ on Kickstarter in one day

Noah Scalin’s bonus skulls on his skull-a-day site, made from two- and three-inch vacuum tubes, are tremendous: “Most of the ones I own have this extra bump at the top so I decided to try leaving it unpainted giving you a peek inside and making them have a bit of an alien/robot feel.” [BONUS] 399/400.

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Vacuum tube skulls

This is Chad Roberts, who wins the Internet today with a Star Wars X-Wing beard. EPIC STAR WARS X-WING BEARD (via Geekologie)

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X-Wing fighter in beard

Just look at it. Halloween Cute Banana Cat (via JWZ)

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Just look at this kitten in a banana-split costume, eating a banana

Ainsworth, a “remedy store” sells “homeopathic” “remedies” — diluted-to-nothing, heavily shaken essences of substances that are good for what ails ya, providing whatever ails you is treatable by placebo (and they’re happy to sell you “remedies” for potentially serious illnesses that are otherwise eminently treatable provided you’re willing to use science instead of profitable nonsense

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Homeopathic doses of the Berlin Wall and tap water

Peter “Brokep” Sunde was convicted in Sweden’s notorious Pirate Bay trial, and now faces prison time and a multimillion-euro fine. As his imprisonment looms, he describes, in detail, the bizarre circumstances of his conviction, which started with an illegal raid ordered by the US trade representative, continued with an investigation led by a prosecutor who’d

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Peter "Brokep" Sunde, railroaded into Swedish prison by Big Content