Tag Archives: craft
The hand craftsmanship behind McLaren
Humans Invent find out that there more than just machines behind McLaren’s supercars.
The mechanical joke maker
Humans Invent meets the artist who makes mechanical automata.
Jeremy Mayer turns typewriter parts into art
The artist who doesn’t glue, weld or solder his sculptures and only uses typewriter parts to build them.
The search for life below the Antarctic
Humans Invent talks to Martin Siegert about his attempt to reach the subglacial Lake Ellsworth.
The silversmiths who restore the FA Cup
Humans Invent visits Thomas Lyte, one of England’s last traditional silversmiths.
Filabot turns your recycling into 3D printer ink
Humans Invent investigates the latest sustainable tech that can turn your recycling into 3D printed objects.
The Queen of the Maker Movement
Entrpreneur of the year, Limor Fried, talks to Humans Invent about her open-source electronics company Adafruit.
London Chroming Company: Masters of a fading craft
Humans Invent talks to the men who chromed David Bowie’s Mini about the process of their fading craft.
One wrong stitch and it’s a reject
English shoemaker Tim Little explains the secrets to making a good pair of English shoes.
The Aluphone: Inspired by a fence, debuted at the Olympics
For the last in our series of 21st century musical instruments we talk to Kai Stensgaard, the co-inventor of the Aluphone.
Sharpsichord: The solar powered harp that plays itself
Humans Invent talks to British composer and sound sculptor who invented the giant pin-barrel harp or “Sharpsichord”
The evolution of the Bütone Drum
For the fourth in our 21st century instruments series Humans Invent talks to Rob Kelly about his Bütone drums.
The scientific quest to find the lost Da Vinci
Humans Invent meets Professor Maurizio Seracini to discuss his search for Da Vinci’s lost painting.
Testing for Parkinson’s by phone
Meet the mathematician who can test for Parkinson’s by remote voice recordings
The birth of a handmade tool
The Latvian toolmakers putting two fingers up to modern manufacturing.
Return of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
The collective that brought you the Dr Who theme are back. Humans Invent talks to technician Yann Seznec.
Engineering robot insects to further brain study
We explore miniature robotics and ask why scientists are engineering robotic bees.
Transhumanism: Is it right to hack our bodies?
Anders Sandberg tackles the big questions raised by transhumanism – is it right to hack our bodies?
