Here’s a note from Dale our publisher… Perhaps the most interesting question in Wednesday’s presidential debate was a question asked near the end by Tom Brokaw… “Should we fund a Manhattan-like project that develops a nuclear bomb to deal with global energy and alternative energy or should we fund 100,000 garages across America, the kind […]
The year is 2008 and ‘Hank Warner’ can no longer wait to attend Maker Faire Austin. Desperate, he decides to have himself cryogenically frozen in order to be revived upon the day of the event. Get your tickets for Maker Faire Austin 2008 Oct 18th and 19th now, don’t wait for the future! (You can […]
Dan Glover of GO-Tech writes: The October GO-Tech meeting (Ann Arbor, MI) is Tuesday, October 14, 8 pm, at Great Oak Cohousing (see below). This will be our 15th meeting! We’ll have a demo of FIRST pneumatics, along with the usual eclectic mix of projects. Bring something cool to show off, especially if it fits […]
We teamed up with our pals from Instructables for what is the biggest Halloween contest on the web. In honor of the best DIY holiday ever, we’re having a party — and everyone’s invited! Elaborate costumes for the whole family, gadgets that go “zzzZAP!,” gross-looking foods, creepy decorations that turn your house into a forbidding […]
Twitter is a neat service that a lot of folks use to get updates from their friends and to just stay in touch, all in 140 characters, via email, phone or the web. MAKE has a Twitter feed too, you get updates from MAKE by visiting (or “following” make) at Twitter. We are trying something […]
Maker Faire won a “American Magazine Vanguard Award”! The first annual American Magazine Vanguard Awards (AMVAs) were announced last night during a ceremony for Ad Age’s annual “A-list.†The AMVAs recognize magazines “that are innovating smartly beyond print.†Make is for nerds and dorks — nerds and dorks who are proudly nerdy and dorky. The […]
There’s a new Bay Area hacker space, NoiseBridge, in the Mission District: We want to provide infrastructure and collaboration opportunities for people interested in programming, hardware hacking, physics, chemistry, mathematics, photography, security, robotics, all kinds of art, and, of course, technology. Through talks, workshops, and projects we encourage knowledge exchange, learning, and mentoring. As a […]
