The first printed Advent calendar was produced in Hamburg between 1902-1903. Close to 110 years later, a maker from Minnesota, Peter Leppik, has updated this traditional seasonal register and brought...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Monday December 17th, 2012 6:30 PM
Categories: 3D Printing, Fun & Games, Home | No Comments
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics Frabjous is a sculpture that consists of thirty identical parts which are assembled into a geometric star with twelve spiral vortices. A...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday March 19th, 2012 12:00 PM
Categories: Fun & Games, Science, Workshop | 1 Comment
Here is a set of laser-cut Truchet tiles with circular arcs, designed to be rearranged in a frame.
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday February 13th, 2012 12:00 PM
Categories: Fun & Games, Woodworking | 6 Comments
MAKE Sales Manager Brigitte Kunde shared this amazing build with us, spotted online by a friend of hers. Pete Fecteau used over 4,000 Rubik’s Cubes to create this 18′ 6″...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Monday October 31st, 2011 9:30 PM
Categories: Craft, Art & Design, Fun & Games | 125 Comments
Here's another beautiful bit of wooden puzzle design and craftsmanship from Denver metagrobologist Kagen Schaefer. The locking mechanism was recently reverse-engineered by Instructables user dombeef, who has made a working...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday July 27th, 2011 6:35 AM
Categories: Craft, Fun & Games, Woodworking, Workshop | 4 Comments
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, this elegant version of the classic sliding-tile puzzle executed in Lego elements by Peer Kreuger. The assembled puzzle has no visible studs.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday January 19th, 2011 4:47 AM
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I built one of these years ago from plans I saw in Slocum and Botterman's New Book of Puzzles, and still delight in playing with it, so I was pleased...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday November 24th, 2010 7:32 AM
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Apart from the fact that the bricks and plates are open at their bottoms, and so the pieces always have one side that can't be "smooth," Lego is a pretty...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday November 8th, 2010 1:19 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Science | 1 Comment
I like this concept design from German product designer Konstantin Slawinski that integrates the pieces of the classic three-piece "wooden knot" puzzle into a knife, a fork, and a spoon...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday October 28th, 2010 9:00 AM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Craft, Fun & Games, Furniture | 1 Comment
Bumped into one of my new neighbors at the mailbox last week, and when I mentioned that I work for MAKE, she mentioned that her teenage son builds puzzles. Mechanical...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Sunday October 10th, 2010 10:29 PM
Categories: 3D Printing, Fun & Games, General, Makers | No Comments
These cool interlocking jigsaw-puzzle shaped cans from Thingiverse user Zydac may be the best example, at least in terms of looks, of objects designed for printing on a MakerBot, RepRap,...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday October 6th, 2010 7:36 AM
Categories: 3D Printing, Art & Design, Fun & Games | No Comments
Michigan machinist GarE Maxton makes many different types of interlocking solid puzzles of this type, but this one, which is he calls Intimidator, is his masterpiece. Starting the disassembly process...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday July 28th, 2010 2:13 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Computers & Mobile, Craft, Fun & Games | 3 Comments
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