Propeller-Driven Theo Jansen Biped
This Theo Jansen robot model consists of a propeller driven Strandbeest biped.
Posted by John Baichtal | Wednesday October 24th, 2012 8:30 AM
Categories: Robotics | 3 Comments
Modern Mechanix
Punch Tape Programmable Metal Mill from 1952
This fascinating article from Scientific American describes one of the world's very first numerically-controlled machine tools, a 3-axis Cincinatti Milling Machine Company "Hydro-Tel" painstakingly adapted for programmable electronic control two...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday April 2nd, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Workshop | 7 Comments
The World’s First Helicopters
This is a wonderful collection of black-and-white newsreel footage, assembled by the company that invented the newsreel, showing a montage of early helicopter prototypes in all their wacky and frequently-terrifying...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday February 24th, 2012 5:59 AM
Open-sourced blueprints for civilization
Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters that for the last two years has been creating the Global Village Construction Set, an open source, low-cost, high...
Posted by John Baichtal | Friday April 15th, 2011 7:00 AM
Categories: Makers, Science, Tools, Workshop | 4 Comments
The Locks of Manuel Guerra
Ray from the Hack Factory clued me into this guy’s work. In an era where locks are factory-made and bland, Manuel Guerra of Cuenca, Ecuador, made some beautiful pieces before...
Posted by John Baichtal | Monday April 4th, 2011 5:00 PM
Categories: General | 5 Comments
Ski Tow for Sleds
Josh Smith of Pennsylvania built this tow rope with a friend. This project started as an innocent “oh, I have an engine” comment and has turned into a really awesome...
Posted by John Baichtal | Thursday February 24th, 2011 7:00 AM
Categories: Uncategorized | No Comments
Homebrewed Gear Puller
Make: Online regular Craig Smith wrote in with a clever fix for his durable no-name electric drill: Six years ago I bought a cheap off brand cordless drill for work....
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday February 22nd, 2011 7:30 AM
Categories: Uncategorized | 13 Comments
Mechanical Principles ca. 1930
Ten minutes of mechanical goodness! [Via Tinkernology]
Posted by John Baichtal | Saturday February 19th, 2011 11:00 AM
Categories: Uncategorized | 9 Comments
Mechanical Pac Man
Toronto’s Jonathan Guberman loves his games. We’ve already seen his typewriter Zork and Game of Life monome. His latest project is nothing less than a mechanical Pac Man game. Still...
Posted by John Baichtal | Wednesday February 9th, 2011 11:00 AM
Categories: Fun & Games | No Comments
Chris Bathgate's self-transforming elf machines
"His works look like randomly-generated parts for high-performance machines that don't work in our universe."
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday February 2nd, 2011 3:30 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Machining | 2 Comments
Location-specific sundials
ANCR sundials, cast from recycled aluminum, use your exact latitude and longitude to plot the dial’s hour lines. Our dials are calibrated using the laws of astronomy to calibrate the...
Posted by John Baichtal | Friday January 28th, 2011 11:57 AM
Categories: Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Know your bolts
MAKE contributor James Floyd Kelly wrote in with a tip on a cool resource: Found some GREAT information on Bolt Depot’s homepage, including this printable poster that displays all the...
Posted by John Baichtal | Monday January 24th, 2011 12:39 PM
Categories: Uncategorized | 10 Comments
