Artist duo Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet collaborated with MTG researcher Sebastian Mealla to produce custom scarves featuring brainwave activity recorded with a non-invasive EEG headset. Brain activity such as relaxation, excitement, and cognitive load were measured while listening to Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” and the data was converted into knitting patterns with Knitic, their open-source [...]

Simon “Burf” Burfield built a Lego wheelchair and now he’s tackling a Lego Segway that supports the weight of an adult. His prototype can’t self-balance, but does a great job of moving around just with toy motors. Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/makezineonline/~3/pTNBhzmHqVc/

We think of the maker movement as a modern phenomena propelled by the internet, the growth of makerspaces, and increasingly affordable digital tools. But making, of course, is anything but new. Humans have always been makers. Jan van Cappelle’s career as a maker began when he read a novel by fellow Dutchman Leonard de Vries called [...]

Maker Faire Rome is set for Oct. 3-6 and is drawing a wide range of makers from Italy and Europe at large. The four-day event is planned to be the first pan-European Maker Faire of its kind. And now the deadline for makers has been extended to June 30. To submit an application, please click [...]

The Arduino blog has a great piece about Knitic, a project involving a custom shield for an Arduino Due; these plug into a knitting machine’s solenoids and sensors, allowing Arduino control of your machine. Knitic is an open source knitting machine, which controls a Brother electronic knitting machine via Arduino. The old ‘brain’ or control [...]

Kacie Hultgren is teaching our Design for Desktop 3-D Printing Training Camp. In the 3-D printing universe, she is better known as PrettySmallThings.  Kacie is a scenic designer in the theatre industry, and was recently profiled in Stage Directions and Wired for her work using her 3D Printer to create scale set models. Her delicate [...]

Josh Kiepert’s beowulf cluster of 33 overclocked Raspberry Pi boards is powered by a custom PCB that sends fused 5V to the boards while providing a little RGB LED action. And check out the crispy rack design! [via Embedded Projects] Article source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/makezineonline/~3/hxw5wLt02xc/

Detroit is a modern wonder. You’d be hard pressed to find an American city that rose so high and fell so far. At the height of its stature as the Motor City in the 1950s, Detroit had a population of about 2 million. Today, white flight to the suburbs, the decline of the automobile industry, [...]

One of the coolest things I saw at Vancouver Mini Maker Faire last weekend was The Emperor’s Cabinet, a gorgeous, meticulously crafted, steampunk-inspired AT-AT handmade by Vancouver artist and “woodbutcher” Colin Johnson. When I first saw it on setup day, the front doors were closed. I coveted it from the instant I saw it, but [...]

There are a plethora of reasons to choose a hand saw over an electric in certain situations. You can use them to get cleaner cuts, better detail, or might need them when you don’t have access to electricity. Also, if you’re budget-minded, certain hand saws make a whole lot more sense than their powered (and [...]

The Mataerial 3D Printer Mataerial is a 3D printer that breaks out of the box, literally. The prototype unit is additive, like other 3D printers, but that’s where the comparison ends. Instead of piling up layers on a circumscribed bed, Mataerial uses a robotic arm and fast-solidifying material to create graceful, flowing curves on a [...]

Gui Cavalcanti is the co-founder of Artisan’s Asylum in Somerville, MA. He organized the “How to Make a Makerspace” workshop. This is the second in a series of posts called Making Makerspaces, a distillation of the information gathered for a series of How to Make a Makerspace workshops produced by Artisan’s Asylum and MAKE. These posts [...]