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 [...]

Today’s “tool tale” comes to us from this year’s ITP Summer Camp, which kicked off in New York yesterday. The ITP Laser Cutter Laser cut tag The ITP Laser Cutter Trent Rohner explaining the Laser Cutter The ITP Laser Cutter Trent Rohner explaining the Laser Cutter The ITP Laser Cutter Balsa wood ready for cutting The [...]

Behold the Hand of Man! The 26-ton Hand of Man is controlled via a telemetry glove. Christian Ristow’s 26-ton mechanical hand and forearm made an appearance at Maker Faire Bay Area 2013 this past month and MAKE Senior Editor Goli Mohammadi was there to experience the Hand of Man—firsthand. The giant robotic hand is controlled by [...]

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs), as well as diodes of the non light-up variety, are the topic for June’s Component of the Month coverage. We kick off June with an excerpt from Syuzi Pakhchyan’s excellent resource for wearable tech, Fashioning Technology. Want to learn more about LEDs and diodes? We’ll be covering them all this month. LEDs [...]

MAKE Asks: is a weekly column where we ask you, our readers, for responses to maker-related questions. We hope the column sparks interesting conversation and is a way for us to get to know more about each other. MAKE reader James Brauer recently sent me this email: Your blog/column got me thinking about all the [...]

The Hack-Bot on the move. Yes, the wheels are tuna fish cans with rubber bands for traction. In this video I will show you the steps to building your own robot and talk a little about the programming it to move. I wanted to create a robotics platform that allowed me to modify things anytime [...]