This article appeared in Make: Vol. 78 in 2021. Subscribe today to get more great articles delivered to your mailbox. Can black sculptures made out of Lego lead to liberation for Black people around the world? Toronto-based artist Ekow Nimako thinks so, and that has been his guiding principle in making stunning pieces of art, like Kumbisaleh 3020 CE, an Afrofuturistic re-imagining of a medieval city in the ancient kingdom of Ghana. “I reached into the past...
WEBSITE I INSTAGRAM Get ready for a day packed with invention, experimentation, and creativity at Maker Faire Delft 2026! Taking over the vibrant TU Delft campus on 8 May from 12:00–20:00, an inspiring community of makers, artists, engineers, designers, researchers, students, inventors, and tech enthusiasts from across the Netherlands and beyond come together to talk shop, collaborate, and get a little wacky. As one of Europe’s leading technical universities, TU Delft plays a central role as...
AI chatbots are a dime a dozen, sometimes cheaper. Chatbots in custom hardware are less numerous, but still pop up steadily. So if you want a conversational robot to stand out, it helps to go the extra mile. Something like a realistic layer of personality, a shiny gold coat, and six-million forms of communication would help a lot. Sam Potozkin’s Threepio project pulls it off. Inspired (of course) by the original 1977 film, Potozkin, a student at Chapman University, has...
What if your necklace pulsed with your heartbeat? What if your ring glowed a different color depending on who was nearby? At Maker Faire Bay Area, Charlyn Gonda invited us to imagine and build. Charlyn Gonda occupies a rare intersection: she is simultaneously a maker, a coder, and a jewelry artist. Her talk at last year’s Maker Faire Bay Area wove all three identities together into a presentation as layered and luminous as her creations themselves. The central argument...
Metal panels on full-sized aircraft are attached in a variety of ways. Some panels butt against each other with no space between. Others, like the Mustang, have noticeable gaps exposing chromate primer below. Racing planes and sailplanes tend to have putty between the panels and over flush rivets, making them nearly invisible. Major stress junctions require overlapping panels. Panels are usually outlined with flush rivets or round-head rivets, but some modern airplanes have panels glued in place. Cal Branton’s quarter-scale...
We recently had the chance to sit down with cinematographer John Brown to talk about his incredible macro work, the challenges of filming tiny creatures, and how technology is shaping the future of natural history filmmaking. John has been making films for about 30 years, and his soon to be releasing project on James Cameron’s the Secrets of Bees. National Geographic Explorer Bertie Gregory immerses viewers in the remarkable lives of bees, some of the most vital creatures...
Manufacturer: Liene Price as tested: $299 Link: liene-life.com/products/pixcut-s1-photo-sticker-printer-and-cutter At a previous Maker Faire, I shared a booth with someone who brought a thermal label printer. They churned out designs during the event as inspiration struck, and sold a bunch of stickers that hadn’t existed before the show. It worked out great, and that was just printing in black and white. The PixCut S1 is perfect for that scenario. It’s a portable sticker maker that prints and cuts out 4″×7″ sheets (or 4″×6″...
In this classic, 2008 project from Craft: 06, readers learned how to hand-sew friendly plush monsters. Featured photo by Garry McLead. This article appeared in Craft: Vol. 06. My anthropomorphic creations always look like post-apocalyptic amigurumi. It’s probably because I like to work free-form and I’m a little goofy on the inside. While playing with commercial felt one day, I managed to create a hand-sewn “special friend” named Johnson. He had a comb-over and a total of six fingers, and he...
Manufacturer: eufyMake Price: $2,499 Link: eufymake.com/products/eufymake-e1 Every so often, something comes along that revolutionizes an entire tech sector, or opens it up to a new group. The Commodore 64 and IBM PC clones brought home computing to the masses. RepRap and MakerBot introduced personal 3D printing to a hungry maker audience. I’d argue that Nestworks (see sidebar TK) are doing similar for CNC. And with a record-setting Kickstarter campaign at $46,762,258, Anker’s eufyMake brand is transforming the...
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