Help me translating this video to your language: http://goo.gl/0z6CR How to make the origami Spring into Action, designed by Jeff Beynon Difficulty level: up...

I began work on my first robot about two years ago. For no particular reason, I decided to begin with a line following robot and truth be told, my f...

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Make your own adorable wooden robot companion!This is an easy project, and sure to make people smile. Enjoy!

Artificial muscles out of fishing line

Just because I want to make this, someday.

Material sample interpretations as simulations of macroscopically photographed nano-sculptures. The base for these enlarged tiny grown crystal structures are textile pattern, with two different levels of translation. One is the layer of color, where a scan of the textile is taken directly to color individual parts of the structure. The second layer is a translation of fabric weavings into three dimensional stacks of interlocked platonic bodies. Both layers are in an uneasy, off-set relation with each other. On a meta level, the simulation of photographed space seduces to imagine this setup as an existing material reality.

Curved plywood

Graphene is truly a 21st-century wonder material, finding use in everything from solar cells to batteries to tiny antennas. Now, however, a group of European research institutes have joined forc...

Self-Assembly Lab, MIT + Carbitex LLC + Autodesk Inc. Project Team: Skylar Tibbits, Athina Papadopoulou, Christophe Guberan, Carrie McKnelly, Chris Martin, Filipe…

Careful lighting can give materials that little extra. Light-emitting materials have an added sparkle all of their own. The textiles here have been developed as a new way of integrating light with material. The results have been developed by the University of Borås in Sweden, specifically the Swedish School of Textiles. Students at the school …

A new phase-changing material built from wax and foam developed by researchers at MIT is capable of switching between hard and soft states. (Learn more: http…

Max's Toy Factory Purchases & Printing Kit

Ink & paper experiments