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New entrant vies for the prize!
Here are some photographs of engines.
There is still plenty of time to enter your design and win an Eames Chair, or a Nelson clock!
Great Eames film shows the design, prototyping and production process of his iconic side shell chair.
Heavy Duty Inc. is having a big pillow giveaway. Turn your couch into a giant slot machine!
In case you had any doubts that the robots were about to rise up…
Lumenlab is now accepting pre-orders for a cool 3-axis mini CNC platform kit called micRo.
OMFG! Make 16, the Spy Tech issue has a Spy vs. Spy cover. Not to mention 10 sneaky projects that you can make.
Look at this fantastic alu-minium pram by Bent Fabrication!
The mad geniuses of at Lumenlab have been using their RoGR Gantry Robot to carve photorealistic pumpkins.
Frontline profiles the 2 candidates. Watch the whole show online.
Who doesn’t love a model gyroplane?
It’s not too late to call your Congressperson and express your outrage at the The Insanity of the $700 Billion Giveaway. And another view can be read here.
A Michigan man sets giant pillars by himself, using smart gravity and wooden lever technology. Via J-Walk.
Before the current bailout, there was the Savings and Loan scandal…Hey, is that John McCain? Why is McCain getting a free ride on this fact during today’s bailout/heist?
This year, our third season grapevine finally yielded fruit. 7 lbs! I picked them all at one go, and decided to have my hand at canning.
I followed the first grape jelly recipe that I found on the internet, which basically said to peel the grapes, cook the grapes for a few minutes, set [...]
If you’ve ever ridden latest iteration of the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland, you will remember how, right before you hit the first drop, you are greeted with the ghostly image of the tentacle-faced Davey Jones creature warning you that “dead men tell no tales”. I certainly did.
The effect uses rear-projection video, [...]
