Go to the Milwaukee Maker Faire and Solve the Laser Maze
If you want to channel your inner Catherine Zeta-Jones and give it a shot yourself, take a crack at the Laser Maze.
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Beyond Barbie
These toys can help sow a love of STEAM in girls, simply by doing and making. Use your little one’s likes as a starting point and see where it leads.
Pi Top: 3D printed, Full Sized, Raspberry Pi Laptop
The Pi Top is an educational kit. It appears as though it is in the early stages of planning an upcoming crowdfunding campaign. the basic idea is that you assemble the entire laptop yourself and learn a few things along the way. There are a series of lessons packaged in software that come along with […]
Unboxing Intel Edison
Intel Developer Forum is underway right now at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. At yesterday’s kickoff, it was clear that Intel sees a lot of potential in Edison, its brand new Linux-based system-on-module, which was originally announced at CES earlier this year. The board itself is small, a little larger than a postage stamp […]
Bass Cannon – The Portable Party
Adam’s Science Website puts it like this: Bass Cannon is a party on your shoulders. A weapon of mass destruction. A thing to make your neighbors angry. Bass Cannon is a mono audio system with a pair of x-pass filters, a powerful amplifier and suitable drivers. It’s composed of an AirZooka, a pair of voice […]
Raspberry Pi and MaKey MaKey Power Bus Stop Pac-Man
Make: Contributing Editor Alasdair Allan visited Maker Faire Trondheim last weekend and caught up with Frode Halvorsen, the general manager of Trondheim Makers. As one of the organizers of the faire, he showed off their advertising campaign, a Raspberry Pi and MaKey MaKey-equipped bus stop ad that lets pedestrians play Pac-Man. The video above gives you […]
Come Jam with Burnkit2600
Justin Emerson, Brett Marshall Lefferts, and Thom Uliasz are out to shatter the mystery of electronic music making. The trio perform, run workshops and make and modify electronic instruments under the name Burnkit2600. Last year at World Maker Faire in New York Burnkit2600 laid down the jams, keeping the crowds entertained all day. The trio […]
