Artist Fonda Yoshimoto talks about two different ways of creating ceramic art: one modern — 3D modeling and printing a prototype in order to make a mold; and one old — etching very thin porcelain to take advantage of the translucency once fired.

Posted by Laura Cochrane | June 29th, 2012 5:15 PM

Categories: 3D Printing, Art | 3 Comments

This time it's personal - an ex-Wakemate engineer's perspective

Posted by Phillip Torrone | June 29th, 2012 3:00 PM

Categories: Open source hardware | 5 Comments

Ellen Sundh's Bad Posture belt uses an Arduino, wave shield, and a flex sensor to detect when the user slouches. If your posture needs correcting, the belt literally yells at you. How's that for motivation? The belt is calibrated when the user presses a pushbutton after attaining good posture. After that, he/she is free to be lambasted by this piece of wearable tech.

Posted by Michael Colombo | June 29th, 2012 12:00 PM

Categories: Arduino, DIY Projects, Electronics | 3 Comments

MIT student Timur Balbekov built this coffee can Doppler radar. Wanna build your own? MIT offers a free online guide telling you how. (Can anyone tell me what microcontroller Timur used?) [via Mr. Vacuum Tube]

Posted by John Baichtal | June 29th, 2012 9:30 AM

Categories: Electronics | 1 Comment

LCD screens look complicated but using an Arduino and a MakerShield, you can easily make your own LCD display shield! Check out this tutorial from Make: Projects.

Posted by Michael Castor | June 29th, 2012 8:00 AM

Categories: Arduino, DIY Projects, Maker Shed Store, Microcontrollers | No Comments

Netherlands-based designer Sabine Marcelis made a do-it-yourself winemaking kit for her graduation design project that has everything needed to ferment, siphon, bottle, and cork wine.

Posted by Laura Cochrane | June 29th, 2012 7:00 AM

Categories: Food and Beverage, Made On Earth, MAKE Magazine | 5 Comments

In case you haven't heard the name before, Spoonflower is a print-on-demand custom fabric service that can indelibly print your images on a roll of fabric up to 58" wide. Andrew@CRAFT just spotted this promotional project from their guest author, Emma Jeffrey, showing off one of the many cool possibilities this service opens up: pillows, cushions, or other upholstery with customized satellite imagery of your location.

Posted by Sean Ragan | June 29th, 2012 6:16 AM

Categories: Crafts, Earth Science, Home Decor | No Comments

Going through this online gallery of paper silhouettes and trying to identify all of the characters from movies, TV, and other pop culture media sources is really fun. Many of them are instantly recognizable, some of them take awhile for the “ah-ha” moment to hit. Some, for me anyway, remain a mystery.  [via Blake Maloof's [...]

Posted by Gareth Branwyn | June 28th, 2012 6:30 PM

Categories: Art, Paper Crafts | No Comments

It’s hard to believe over a month has passed since Maker Faire Bay Area 2012. The Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth blew through like a tornado of inspiration, and we’re still reeling from the incredibly creative ideas and projects we witnessed and the impressive number of folks who came out in support of making. [...]

Posted by Goli Mohammadi | June 28th, 2012 6:00 PM

Categories: Art, Maker Faire, Robotics | 2 Comments

One of my favorite memories of World Maker Faire last year was meeting Lisa Qiu and Abe Fetterman. They were our booth neighbors in the Arduino tent, and they had built an incredible DIY Sous Vide machine and were serving up deep fried egg yolks to anyone who passed by. Of course I remember the [...]

Posted by David Lang | June 28th, 2012 4:00 PM

Categories: Uncategorized | 12 Comments