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Enzo Mari's Autoprogettazione
MAKE at RoboGames: A Discussion with Lem Fugitt about Humanoids
Teaching 3D Design Thinking with The City X Project
The Reinvention of the Wheel
Mobile Surfboard-Building Classroom
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Enzo Mari's Autoprogettazione

The video below is a lengthy but insightful interview with legendary Italian maker Enzo Mari. His 1974 manual Autoprogettazione offered nineteen designs using readymade cuts of timber, to build tables, chairs, bookshelves, and even beds. He essentially open-sourced the home furnishings industry. His designs usually required nothing more than a [...]

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MAKE at RoboGames: A Discussion with Lem Fugitt about Humanoids

Humanoid robot competition is one part of RoboGames that seems to be dominated by Japanese roboticists. Lem Fugitt, who runs Robots Dreams, has been involved with the humanoid robot scene in Japan for nine years, and tends to bring a few "professional" Robo-One players with him on his annual trip to RoboGames. We spoke with him about how he got involved in the Robo-One scene and how 3D Printing has started to benefit the builders.

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Teaching 3D Design Thinking with The City X Project

"Humans have just landed on an Earth-like alien planet. They've staked out an area for the capital, City X, and have sent back a 3D map of the location with many challenges to be solved by their engineers on Earth, a vast team of young designers all around the world."

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The Reinvention of the Wheel

Arguably after the club, and possibly fire, the next thing to be invented was the wheel. In any case it's been around, almost unchanged, for a very long time. Like the mouse trap it's notoriously hard to reinvent.

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Mobile Surfboard-Building Classroom

Maine-based Grain Surfboards is a small maker-run company on the coast that hand-makes sustainably cut, locally milled white cedar wooden surfboards. Aside from their dedication to environmental responsibility, what sets Grain apart is that they also offer DIY surfboard kits and a variety of surfboard-building classes. Their newest undertaking is [...]