For inventors, transitioning from a great idea to a working prototype can be an arduous task. Lucky for DIY types there are now low cost 3D printers available. In front of a crowd of 850+ Ignite enthusiasts from Phoenix, @DocProfSky shares his enthusiasm of 3D printing and talks about the MakerBot Cupcake CNC printer.
The final touches to the 3D Body Scanner are complete. It's all ready for +ACM SIGGRAPH My professor and I are going to make another one - that can travel better. I'd like to take it to+Maker Faire New York. Scan people then print them on a 3d printer.
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Alan Alda 3D printing a bicycle. We want to see 3D printing, FabLabs and Hackerspaces become a regular feature--in addition to its other services--at every public library in the country. This is a description of our proposal to create a FabLab in the Fayetteville Free Library and gives a brief introduction to what 3D printing is and how revolutionary it will be for those who are unfamiliar with it.
Welcome to TurtleArt! TurtleArt lets you make images with your computer. The Turtle follows a sequence of commands. You specify the sequence by snapping together puzzle like blocks. The blocks can tell the turtle to draw lines and arcs, draw in different colors, go to a specific place on the screen, etc.
Wolfram|Alpha is more than a search engine. It gives you access to the world's facts and data and calculates answers across a range of topics, including science, nutrition, history, geography, engineering, mathematics, linguistics, sports, finance, music...
Singing Fingers lets you fingerpaint with sound. Just touch the screen while you make a sound, and colorful paint appears. Touch the paint to play back the sound again!
An Invention Kit for Everyone What Can I Make?That's up to you! First, load up a computer program or any webpage. Let's say you load up a piano. Make bananas into a piano.
Turn the whole world into a keyboard. What's MaKey MaKey? Make + Key = MaKey MaKey. MaKey MaKey is an invention kit for the 21st century. An Invention Kit for Everyone. Use your wildest imagination and turn everyday objects into touch pads and combine them with the internet.
Codeable Objects is a library for Processing that allows anyone to design and construct an artifact using geometric computation and digital fabrication. This tutorial will show you how to use the library to make a laser cut lamp. The library allows you to customize the size, shape and decorative patterns of the lamp.
Finger Paint with Your Voice Youtube Singing Fingers Lets You Finger Paint with Sound Make a sound while moving your finger to record a sound-drawing.
Invent To Learn Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom
Explore our growing cookbook of DIY projects for the workshop, kitchen, garage, and backyard. Learn new skills, find family fun, build a robot or a rocket. Get started in electronics and use new platforms like Raspberry Pi and Arduino to power your inventions. Get inspired and start making something today.
A cardboard arcade made by a 9-year-old boy.
Imagine, create & play with Makedo. Start making from the stuff around you using our tools for creative play. See what others' are creating!
The FreePlay Kit for One by Makedo provides all the tools and reusable connectors needed to build your own masterpiece. Included in each kit are 29 re-clips and 6 lock-hinges that let you connect materials together as well as a plastic safe-saw for punching holes in thick cardboard or plastic and cutting it down to size.
Frames is educational software for stop-motion animation, claymation, and digital storytelling. Frames helps students develop 21st-century communication skills.
RoloboxTM - the innovative product set to make the ordinary box even better! RoloboxTM is a reusable set of wheels and brackets that can be fitted to any cardboard box with the chunky nuts and bolts provided. An ideal present for kids, use the wheels as a children game to create a bus, car, train and more.
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre - THE HOMEPAGE! - Museum of automata (mechanical sculpture). 70+ humourous machines come to life at touch of button. Unique
The Tinkering Studio is an immersive, active, creative place at the Exploratorium where museum visitors can slow down, become deeply engaged in an investigation of scientific phenomena, and make something--a piece of a collaborative chain reaction, for example--that represents their ideas and aesthetic. Here we chronicle our experiments with art, science, technology, and delightful ideas.
From the Chicago Children's Museum
We decided to launch Modkit Micro on Kickstarter in order to produce copies of the desktop version on a flash drive and to provide early access to the online version to our supporters. After our Kickstarter campaign was a great success, we decided to continue the pre-order of the desktop version of Modkit Micro on a flash drive through our Alpha Club.
