While 3D printing will remain the territory of geeks and tinkerers for quite a while to come, an impressive step was achieved with the RepRap last week: It can now print its own components. Not quite full self replication, in the sense of a second, fully assembled printer appearing end on out of a first, [...]

Speaking of Instructables, I only just found out the Looty I made a while back hit MAKE last month, with Jim Woodring also making a post about it.

I made these for the 1 year anniversary of a local DS Night. I put them up on up on Instructables, and they got featured within the hour :)

I saw a lot of indie games at GDC. Gesundheit!, by Matt Hamill is by no means the most innovative, but it is utterly delightful. The art style has the same effect on me that Katamari Damacy did some years ago.
The concept is pretty easy: The little pig must bait monsters into traps by sneezing [...]

This work by Johnny Chung Lee interests me in the same way FTIR touch screens do:

Creating events that work with intuitive gestures may prove to be a challenge, as wiggling a finger doesn’t seem like the tidiest input or the most natural. I suppose that’s workable with interpretation of twitches though, and even if not, [...]

I just saw this DIY multitouch screen on Instructables, based on the work of Jeff Han. I am now fidgety with excitement.
I knew the hardware was very simple, but had no idea that there was OSS software to support it :)

Some of the stuff shown in there is a bit blobby and has that cobbled [...]