Machine Thinking

RepRap is a low cost 3D printer that can make many things out of plastic, including nearly all the parts to make another one. It’s like having a photo printer but instead of replicating photos you can replicate objects. In theory, it could supply many of the objects you use around the house.

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1930s Chevrolet movie with an excellent demonstration of how a car’s differential works. First you get about 1:50 of some fancy motorcycle riding.

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A few weeks ago my industrial arts collective Kinetic Steam Works tested our traction engine, Pappy. Yours truly makes several appearances and is seen far right in the preview image above.

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Will small helpless robots arrive at their destination? The creator, kacie kinzer, writes:

Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.

The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged.

more information at tweenbots.com

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thanks kylev!

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Field of Reeds from john douglas powers on Vimeo.

Lullaby from john douglas powers on Vimeo.

Work-Family-Self from john douglas powers on Vimeo.

I am the Crescent Moon from john douglas powers on Vimeo.

John Douglas has produced a number of wonderful kinetic sculptures and animations available on vimeo

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Carpenter Carlos Alberto of Portugal has made an absolutely stunning vespa out of wood. Links to lots of great shots here.

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The youtube blurb reads:

Innovative short produced by Ernie Kovacs in which the various objects of an office workspace come to life. The music they dance to is a medley (“Jalousie/Sentimental Journey”) by space age pop maestro Juan Esquivel.

via Laughing Squid

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Design duo Patrick Li and Ian Gallais make up Sounds Butter which has created Visible Sound. They describe it best:

The intention for this project was to make sound visible. As there is already a variety of ways in which sounds can be seen (equalizers, sub-titles, etc.), my aim was to produce a device where that representation of sound would be a physical one. I therefore used the sewing machine as the basis for the project as I feel it is synonymous with industry, and making physical products. Due to limitations in my computer programming skills this model of a stereo/sewing machine is a prototype of how I imagined the actual product would look.

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(thanks, kylev!)

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