The only thing makers like more than building things is making systems to build things. [Eric Hunting] has compiled a list of these modular building systems. As the well-known XKCD comic likes to ...

This year at the San Francisco Bay Area Maker Faire, trying to juggle my own interests (talk to cool people) and my 5-year-old son's (build or break stuff), we both hit paydirt at the same time when ...

The fantastic Creatrope blog has a great article on quickly assembling animatronic Halloween gags using salvaged electric motors, pvc pipe, and “grid beam” construction. Grid beam is a prototyping and ...