It’s almost time for the year end holidays but there’s one last bit of Halloween business to take care, the DIY Halloween contest winners! It took awhile to get through all these, there were HUNDREDS — Drum roll::::::::::::::::: Tech Grand Prize The Magic Mirror – Arduino Powered Craft Grand Prize Aliens Powerloader Halloween Costume Check […]
The Greener Gadgets 2009 design competition is now open for entries: We invite designers to explore the concept of “Greener Gadgets.” Designs should seek to minimize the environmental impact of consumer electronic devices at any stage in the product lifecycle. Areas of sustainability to consider include: 1. Energy 2. Materials / Lifecycle / Recycling 3. […]
Meet Dan! He’s our associate publisher at MAKE and Magazine.org just did an interview with him – Dan Woods is Associate Publisher for O’Reilly Media’s Maker Media Division, which includes MAKE: Magazine, stage.makezine.com,book publishing unit MAKE: Books, e-tail site MakerShed.com, and Maker Faire, a live event targeting armchair MacGyvers and Ben Franklins. Before taking on […]
The MAKE video podcast is in the iTunes best of 2008 list, I wanted to say thanks to all the viewers, makers and our team who makes it all possible! The MAKE podcast started out almost 5 years ago on my hacked up Linux running iPod that I’d use to record makers talking about their […]
Instructables has announced an amazing contest they’re running with Sears. Called “The Craftsman Workshop of the Future Contest,” all you have to do to be eligible is post an Instructable that uses tools! The grand prize winner will get a $20,000 Sears gift card (no, that’s not a typo). Ten runners up will each get […]
Congrats qubix you won the CYBER MONDAY “Maker’s – Three laws of robotics contest!! – Please email me and we’ll send you out your prize! The Co-Robot kit from Japan! qubix on December 1, 2008 at 5:15 AM 3 laws of Homemade Robotics A robot will work perfectly until you try and show it to […]
You’ve probably already heard of Outside.in, the “hyperlocal” news, information, and conferencing service created to serve cities, towns, and neighborhoods throughout the US. John Geraci, one of the co-founders of Outside.in, has launched a new site called DIYcity. The idea here is to use the crowdsourcing power of the interwebs and open source/Web 2.0 software […]
