Collaborate Disseminate
Finely powdered aluminium can make almost anything more pyrotechnically interesting, from fireworks to machine shop cleanups – even ceramics, as [Degree of Freedom] discovered. He was experimenting with mixing aluminium …read more Continue reading Thermite Pottery Fires Itself
Typeface (such as Times New Roman) refers to the design that gives a set of letters, numbers, and symbols their signature “look”. Font, on the other hand, is a specific …read more Continue reading The Subtle Art of Letterform Design
The Etch A Sketch was never supposed to meet a Raspberry Pi, a camera, or a mathematical algorithm, but here we are. [Tekavou]’s Teka-Cam and TekaSketch are a two-part hack …read more Continue reading TekaSketch: Where Etch A Sketch Meets Graph Theory
If you know anything about Mickey Mouse, you’ll be able to tell us that his first outing was in 1928’s Steamboat Willie — an animated short that sees our hero …read more Continue reading Steamboat Willie Still Tests Copyright
While it is sort of disturbing, it is one of the best uses for a round LCD we’ve seen lately. What is it? Just [vishalsoniindia]’s SoulCage — a pendant that …read more Continue reading Trapped Soul in Time for Halloween
A book of mechanical actions is a wondrous thing — mechanically inclined children have lost collective decades pouring over them over the generations. What could possibly be better? Why, if …read more Continue reading 3D Printed “Book” Demonstrates Mechanical Actions
When we see an extremely DIY project, you always get someone who jokes “well, you didn’t collect sand and grow your own silicon”. [Patrícia J. Reis] and [Stefanie Wuschitz] did …read more Continue reading PCBs the Prehistoric Way
[Ancient] has a video showing off a fascinating piece of work: a lip-syncing robot whose animated electro-mechanical mouth works like an IBM Selectric typewriter. The mouth rapidly flips between different …read more Continue reading A Closer Look Inside a Robot’s Typewriter-Inspired Mouth
Barrier-grid animations (also called scanimations) are a thing most people would recognize on sight, even if they didn’t know what they were called. Move a set of opaque strips over …read more Continue reading Design Scanimations In a Snap With The Right Math
The Diné (aka Navajo) people have been using their weaving as trade goods at least since European contact, and probably long before. They’ve never shied from adopting innovation: churro sheep …read more Continue reading The 555 as You’ve Never Seen It: In Textile!