This week, take the first step towards making your own self-replicating rapid-prototyping robot! You can order up your boards, from the Reprap foundation or make your own since the whole project is open source. Get your parts and solder these up and test them! Huge thanks goes out to Zach Hoeken, who inspired this project. Marius Kintel, Philipp Tiefenbacher, Benko, Red, and other folks at Metalab along with Michael Zeltner and Flo of the GRL Vienna crew pulled a lot of all nighters this week getting this robot together to present at Roboexotica. The best ways to make excellent new friends is to ask for help on an ambitious project!

Sponsored by Ponoko: Ponoko is a new concept that’s perfect for Makeziners. Use it to make and promote your product ideas. Ponoko supplies the digital manufacturing technology and the materials, you supply the creativity. Plus you can sell your product ideas in their showroom. Ponoko is this week’s sponsor of our weekend video podcast.

If you’re one of the first 10 Makeziners to make a product using Ponoko you’ll get shipping for free. Click here to get going

I’ve put together a zip file that has 21 MP3 Ditties. They’re short pieces of music that I’ve made when I needed music. I’m proud of them! - ZIP File Link

Please download and use my music! These bits are good for:
- putting under sped up video of making things
- time lapse
- travel times when you show going from one place to another
- anything else that you can think of.

I’m releasing them under the creative commons attribution license. You can use them for whatever you like, you just have to give me credit by having music - bre pettis brepettis.com in the end credits of the video. Of course it would also be nice if you’d tell me you’re using it and link to brepettis.com and mentioned me in your blogpost, but that’s really just icing on the cake. My goal here is for people to have access to the music I have made to use in my DIY videos.

I want to spread my wings and find new ways to create music for my videos. I feel like I’ve maxed out garageband now and I may get something like ableton live to play with to give me more options for making new music. Please send me an email or leave a comment telling me your strategies for making music. I’d love to hear how you make music!

This weekend, make a flower out of 3 bills. This makes a great tip for a nice dinner out or just a way to spend 20 minutes or so folding paper! This project is from Craft: Magazine Volume 5 and the origami was designed by Robert J. Lang and Diagrammed by Jeffrey Rutzky.

On a sidenote, I really like the music I hacked together for this video. I’m releasing it as an mp3 under the creative commons license! - MP3 Link

Sponsored by Ponoko: Ponoko is a new concept that’s perfect for Makeziners. Use it to make and promote your product ideas. Ponoko supplies the digital manufacturing technology and the materials, you supply the creativity. Plus you can sell your product ideas in their showroom. Ponoko is this week’s sponsor of our weekend video podcast.

If you’re one of the first 10 Makeziners to make a product using Ponoko you’ll get shipping for free. Click here to get going

Yesterday I helped do make-up for the first ever Vienna Zombie Mob. It was awesome! Shown above is Ivory and Gamejew.

Here are my photos - Link

eSel’s photos - Link

Raimund’s photos - Link

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Sometimes it can be so frustrating to have people you want to give a t-shirt to who are far away and inaccessible on the upper decks of stadiums. They wave their hands in desperation with such hope and joy at the possibility of receiving
a t-shirt from you, but you know in your heart that they will won because your throwing arm just isn’t capable of hurling a t-shirt into the upper decks…

Fear not, your problem may be solved this weekend if you attempt to build this awesome air-powered, solenoid control valved, tough-looking t-shirt cannon! I collaborated with William Gurstelle, author of Whoosh, Boom, Splat. It’s
fun and exciting to work with Bill!