Grafting living trees together over formers it can take between 4 and 8 years to grow a piece of furniture. But Gavin Munro is a furniture designer based in Derbyshire, England, is a patient man.

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Artist and designer Sebastian ErraZuriz creates what at first appears to be sleek, minimalist, Ikea-esque pieces of furniture, but there is more to them than meets the eye. In his recently published videos on Vimeo, he demonstrates that his “functional sculptures” are far more than what they originally seem. In […]

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Editor’s note: Madison Worthy and Miriam Engle are biking across Europe, visiting different Makerspaces, and filming Self-Made, a documentary about their adventure and the Makers they meet. You can find the other parts to this series at the end of this article. Our names are Madison Worthy and Miriam Engle […]

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Here’s a fun tutorial that was used in a DIY project found in a past issue of Make: — the “EZ-Make Oven. It featured an incandescent bulb, as a heat source, built into a paint can for baking plastisol creatures, aka Creepy Crawlers! Here is how you can make something else with the EZ-Make […]

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Traditional methods for building cars are full of wasted materials and wasted energy. 3D printing offers a greater level of customization along with the ability to easily make complicated parts. The team from Divergent Microfactories set forth to use the power of 3D printing to help make a car — and […]

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Keys have a very clear daily purpose in our lives; they give us access into a particular space, but what about the idea of keys? Within our culture, keys hold a larger symbolic purpose that grants them access to memories, control, explanations, interpretations, and access to whatever is being protected or hidden. The […]

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There are very few things that will fire-up the creative minds of the world like a good movie. This summers hit, Mad Max: Fury Road, is proving to be full of inspiration to at least a few Makers out there. Here are seven designs inspired by the movie that you […]

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Build your own extendable robo arm from paint stirring sticks!

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The first annual National Maker Faire was a unique, yet comfortingly familiar, event hosted at the University of the District of Columbia in our nation’s capital. Yes, there were the ever-popular 3D printing projects, robots galore, arts, crafts, and lots of science and engineering based displays, but there were also […]

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Have dryer lint or sawdust lurking around in your home or workshop? Turn that trash into easy DIY campfire starters thatll keep you smore-ready all summer long! As many beginner campers, and some skilled outdoorsmen/women, have experienced sometimes wood fires just dont want to light. Maybe the wood is a little bit […]

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Sprout by HP is far from your average desktop PC. It’s a way to merge the physical world that we live in with the digital world that we work in. With new ways to bring physical objects into the digital workspace, Sprout is poised to change the way that we interact with computers, and each other.

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Every time I come back from a Maker Faire someone asks me what that my favorite thing was that I saw there. At World Maker Faire 2013, that was an easy question to answer, the Pocket NC 5 Axis CNC. The possibilities of what could be made with a desktop […]

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On Create Digital Music, our friend Peter Kirn has posted an exciting piece about an artist and maker, Jerobeam Fenderson, who has figured out how to generate dynamic musical drawings on an oscilloscope. Peter explains: Graz-based artist Jerobeam Fenderson is out to solve an age-old problem in the literal fusion […]

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While cleaning out an old laptops filesystem back in October, David West discovered a few videos he took of a mechanical clock atop the South Ward Meeting Hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Years before his digital find, he worked in that very building and became so interested by the clocks […]

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It’s a shame to toss out those beautiful boxes Apple products come in. The Apple iMac computer in particular comes in a big, gorgeous box made of quality cardboard that’s just begging to be repurposed into something great. James Coleman, founder of the design group ParaPractice, saw a discarded iMac […]

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Make a custom Raspberry Pi enclosure to store family memories right next to your tomatoes.

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We have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Robot Army. Thats not really a sentence you get to say every day is it? Well, we get to! This robot army isnt as scary as it sounds. Instead of showing up armed as one might expect from the name, this […]

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A global community is contributing expertise to the InMoov Project

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Parrot announces an updated line of their Minidrone series, including affordable toy drones that roll, jump, fly, and float on water.

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As more people become familiar with 3D printing and the ways additive manufacturing can change how things are made, new ideas and applications continue to emerge. While printing toys and cell phone cases can be fun, these are not world-changing applications. A team in Amsterdam, Netherlands MX3D, is preparing to […]

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