MAKE magazine is excited to have completed nominations for the first annual MAKE Magazine Industry Maker Awards, AKA “The Makeys.” Over the course of the past 12 weeks, leading up to our award ceremony on September 16 at Maker Faire New York 2011 (to be webcast live from New York City), MAKE has nominated (and published online profiles of) 12 companies that have shown outstanding support for independent maker/hacker culture. Three companies/products have been nominated in four categories.

This year, the physical trophies will be produced in collaboration with Thingiverse.com (the 3D object sharing site), and manufactured by MakerBot Industries (3D printer manufactures).

More info: makezine.com/makeys

Trophy design by Jonathan Monaghan, printed by Matt Griffin, based on an illustration by Kim Dow.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becky_Stern

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Part of a ongoing project scanning the heads of bloggers, artists, DIYers, makers, musicians, hackers and anybody else we think is notable.

Made with a Polhemus 3d scanner at MakerBot.

I started this project long, long ago. I was teaching at TechShop and had the time, tools, and a drive to make something serious. You see, I have had this long history of mixed emotions about steampunk. On the one hand, it is a wonderful and beautiful to look back on generations past and reflect on all the awesome things they have done. It is great to be inspired by Tesla and Grahm Bell and all the guys slaving away in steel mills wearing top hats. On the other hand steampunk has also become a label for hastily made shoddy things muddled together with hot glue, watch gears, and brass spray paint.

Often times my philosophy is to not have opinions on things until I have done something substantial to justify them. This is me putting my money where my mouth is. This is my highly engineered, hard labor, meticulously calculated answer to why steampunk is awesome. There can be so much cool in the intersection between math and metal and leather and science and I think everyone should give it a try.

The whole set of photos from the project is on display here flickr.com/photos/gianteye/sets/72157624394079042/

You can see a bit more on how the metal components on the goggles were made here flickr.com/photos/gianteye/sets/72157619078382624/ and find out a bit more about the prototyping process here makersmarket.com/seller/gianteye/blog

I fuel my insatiable love for design and adventure through ventures like selling digitally fabricated jewelry on etsy. You should take a look at gianteye.etsy.com or get in touch with me at m sinbox.org if you have ideas, advice, job offers, commissions, or cake.

A Makerbot Giveaway entry.

This is a stereoscope used for viewing stereo pairs (two images that together make a 3D image) arranged parallel style (not cross-eye). Thanks to its central pivot, it can be used with a wide variety of image sizes. It's ideal for viewing pairs made of two 5x7" photo prints, or images approximately that size on a monitor. It's also fun to just plain look through the viewer, because it increases your depth perception by effectively moving your eyes farther apart.

But that's only half the fun. I've included a collection of stereo images I made especially for this viewer (see "Kongoscope_3D_Image_Funpack.pdf").
They're good viewing on your monitor or printed on 8.5 x 11" paper.

But that's not all! I wrote a light-hearted user manual (see "Kongoscope_USER_MANUAL.pdf") that should make assembly easy and fun. It also has viewing tips. While writing the manual, I made up a fantasy company, KONGO!, that's marketing this device. See their comic book advertising over there on the left.

I hope somebody has fun with this!

EDIT OCT. 6, 2010: By request, I've added the original Blender file. Note that there are reference objects in the file not meant to be printed, like mirrors and screws.

It's a right foot. More specifically, a four-toed right foot.

Created for Becky Stern's yeti ( thingiverse.com/derivative:2347 ), to match the hands she had printed for it from: thingiverse.com/thing:1288

Note: The pictures of the foot I printed are lefty versions!

Gain maximum web credibility with FOXBLING.
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A hook with a bearing to suspend a basket of plastic to feed a RepRap machine. Full details in my blog: hydraraptor.blogspot.com/2008/11/sky-hook.html

Laser cut it out of cardboard! Remember to adjust the slot sizes for your cardboard's thickness!

this are some earrings i designed for my wife

This is a set of solid pentominoes, each of which is based on one of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. They are based on originals by Japanese schoolteacher Sabu Oguro as published on p. 40 of Jerry Slocum and Jack Botermans' 1986 book Puzzles Old & New: How to Make and Solve Them. All parts printed via MakerBot, and photographs, by Becky Stern. Becky will be streaming live video of her MakerBot printing some of these pieces at 10 AM PST on Friday, December 18, on her Ustream channel at:

ustream.tv/channel/sternlab

My friend Pedro Pinheiro assembled a tvbgone.com kit at codebits.eu and wanted an enclosure for it. Since we had brought along altLab's MakerBot, I was able to model and print him one on the spot.

This is parametrized Box model. It can be adaped to your wishes by changing the parameters like height, diameter, screwing angle, grip height, and curve parameters. In case you just want a screwable jewellery box I included 3 versions of the box as stl files.

Two piece bracelet modeled in openscad.org
Work in progress by a beginner :)

A little mushroom guy I modeled in Maya based on... hmm... can't quite remember where I've seen this guy before. I think it rhymes with "Fooper Zario Smothers"...