Wired Design

In the field of (fictional) DIY mayhem, the leading brand is clearly ACME, the company where Wile E. Coyote shops for gear to catch the Road Runner. What the ACME product line lacks in reliability, it makes up for in …

Autodesk, the industry leader in CAD software, has announced it is partnering with biological printer manufacturer Organovo to create 3D design software for designing and printing living tissue.

Unfortunately, the next season of HBO’s Game of Thrones isn’t arriving until the end of March, but luckily for those who can’t wait for their next visit to Westeros, a couple of intrepid digital masons have helped build beautiful facsimiles …

Raspberry Pi, the low-cost, credit-card-sized linux computer platform that hit the market nine months ago, just reached a new milestone with today’s launch of the Rasperry Pi Store.

The online marketplace, available directly on the computer through the popular Raspbian …

Sigrid Brell-Cokcan and Johannes Braumann want you to make architecture with robot arms.

For decades, robots have been used on assembly lines to do things like make cars and package food. Over a long period of refinement, the iconic robot arm …

When we first got wind of Foldify, an iPad app for designing and printing out paper craft figures, we were entranced. We wanted to know what goes into making an app like this, so we got in touch with Foldify …

The crowdfunding site is fueling all sorts of cool projects that would never have gotten off the ground without its help. It’s also enabling ridiculous projects that should be brought back down to earth. Can you tell the real campaigns …

It was a serious accident that sparked Anirudha Surabhi’s senior design project at the Royal College of Art in London. He was hospitalized for several days with a concussion after a bike crash, and when he returned to school, he …

Kingdom Death: Monster is a cooperative board game that is equal parts Milton-Bradley and Megadeth album art. In it players team up in an RPG-like setting, playing amnesiac characters trying to survive in a nightmarishly baroque setting.

The Walt Disney Company recently unveiled a massive overhaul of their Test Track high-speed driving simulator in Orlando. None of their cartoon characters make an appearance, but the ride does feature an unlikely new star: CAD software.

Most kids are thrilled with the idea of getting to sit on Santa’s lap and rattling of their wish list. Maker kids (and maker parents) would prefer to talk shop with the elves. This collection of misfit toys, er tools, …

DIY electronic music makers, start warming up your soldering irons: a pair of hardware hacking designers have created a miniature two-button, solar-powered synthesizer with a 3-D printed wrist-strap housing, and the full set of plans are posted online for you …

Sculpteo has new plans to expand their 3-D print-by-mail service, after the company scored $2.5 million in funding from XAnge Private Equity and other angels.

An engineer has used his expertise to create an accurate and festive 3-D gingerbread model of his summer house using a laser cutter.

Working on the project with his wife, Johan von Konow generated the necessary shapes for the construction in …

E-mail marketing software has all the charm of a tax form, unless it’s MailChimp, a service that brings bold style to a banal task. While MailChimp’s publicly traded competitors acquire customers by advertising on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show, the primate-themed …

During the London Blitz, from October 7, 1940 to June 6, 1941, bombs dropped by German planes killed some 40,000 Londoners. Bomb Sight, a project from the University of Portsmouth, used data from original bomb census maps and historical images …

If you’re not an industrial designer or architect, the prospect of creating something out of thin air can seem daunting. But never fear: Tinkercad, the Web-based 3-D modeling system created by Kai Backman and Mikko Mononen, is designed specifically to …

After a rash of late and questionable projects led to a policy revamp in September, Kickstarter tightened its requirements, especially for design and technology projects. And rejected entrepreneurs are exploring new alternatives in crowdfunding, from other platforms like Indiegogo to …

Arduino announced today a new controller, the Esplora, which includes more prebuilt features and could be a step for Arduino toward a wider segment of the microcontroller market.