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December 18, 2014
Freaky Organic Apparel “Grown” and 3D Printed
You might say that Mother Nature is the 3D original printer, especially after seeing the collaborative project that Professor Neri Oxman of the MIT Media Lab created with Christoph Bader & Dominik Kolb called "Wanderers."
December 17, 2014
Painted Bugs, Pianos, and Riverfronts: Painters pushing boundaries
New to the art scene, or rather newly discovered is an artist collective known as UGLAR and made up of five members. These five artists, Evan Skredertsu, Christopher D. Brand, Steve Martinez, Espi, and Jose A. Lopez, are transcending their previous titles as ‘street artists’ and moving past land […]
December 16, 2014
DIY Activity Tracker
Activity trackers (e.g. the FitBit) are becoming more popular for tracking fitness goals. As fun as this is, you could always just build your own with, you guessed it, an Arduino! You’ll also need a battery, a Bluetooth module, an accelerometer, as well as some custom software on your smartphone […]
3D Printing Brings Schooling Home
There are two means of incorporating 3D printing into a homeschool plan. One, of course, is by getting a 3D printer for your home. (More on that later.) A simpler means is through a veritable wealth of amazing pre-made models to be found by the clever makers who post on […]
3D Printed Prosthetics Allow Dog To Run
3D printing prosthetics isn’t exactly the newest thing in the world, but this take on it is surprisingly refreshing. This dog named Derby was born with disfigured legs. Running, or even walking, simply wasn’t possible. While you can see that a wheel rig was in use for some time, 3D […]
21st Century Robot: The Manifesto
Note: This is an excerpt of Brian David Johnson’s new book, 21st Century Robot, an audacious experiment in storytelling that weaves sci-fi stories into a real-life nonfiction narrative featuring several worldwide adventures, a serious dose of 3D printing, plenty of open source technology, the efforts of a first grade class, […]
This Tabletop Has Over 5000 Pennies Embedded In It
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An Imgur user going by the name of CallofTheGame has made an extravagant table by gluing approximately 5,218 copper pennies to a door. The process was relatively simple and started with the purchase of a 80″ x 32″ solid core birch door that was stained with a Continental shade that beautiful matched the copper color of […]
December 15, 2014
Microsoft’s IoT Developer Program Puts Windows on Little Boards
I found it interesting that you could put Windows on an Intel Galileo. Like the version of Windows for for small tablets, it's free (as in beer). To program a Galileo running Windows, you’ll need to run Visual Studio and write some C++.
DIY Castle Bunk Bed
One father decided that his two little girls simply could not live without a pink castle of their own, so he created an awesome, DIY Castle Bunk Bed with his own two hands and the extraordinary power of his imagination! See the picture above for the finished product. There […]
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