Technology

Tracking innovative making and manufacturing signals from around the world.

A curated list of interesting makers that caught our eye — MakieLab

For all the Luke Skywalkers out there, your hand is coming. A self-taught inventor, Easton LaChapelle of Mancos, Colorado is creating mind-blowing (and low-cost) robotic arms that he’s been developing since he was 14...as in, 3 years ago.

Manufacturing has moved to Asia. Large enterprises benefit from automation but it’s expensive and keeps small upstarts out of their markets. Those two statements are being challenged by advances in robotics.

Tracking innovative making and manufacturing signals from around the world — GE's stated embrace of 3D printing.

Tracking innovative making and manufacturing signals from around the world — Wikihouse

Kevin Kelly, co-founder of Wired, espouses technological determinism—the perspective that certain technologies have inherent qualities that are destined to become increasingly manifest, evoking a technological entropy of sorts.

Christian Sandvig studies how the details of such algorithmic operations are selectively disclosed to shape the public’s relationship to these services.

A collection of ideas and thoughts that point to the future of architecture and urbanism — Craig Mod and the untapped potential of minimalism