Congrats Eric! When Eric Wilhelm finished his PhD in mechanical engineering at MIT, he and three friends started Squid Labs, a consultancy based in Emeryville, CA, that finds fixes for clients’ technical problems (how to make solar-collecting concrete, for example). But Squid Labs was also founded as a place where the colleagues could explore their […]
As mentioned before, we’re doing a Best of Instructables book. Instructables ran a contest on the site to find the 50 best Instructables, as voted on by the users. The results are now on the site. Congrats to the winners. Their projects will be listed in the book (some of them will be featured as […]
Cindy at Skip To My Lou is gathering up crafty bloggers to share their favorite books and projects on her blog, all to support Read to Feed: While we are encouraging our children to read this summer we can be helping poor families all over the world! Read to Feed is a reading motivation/service learning […]
A collection of MAKE pals are going to be on a new show, check it out! On October 15, the Discovery Channel will debut its new show, Prototype This! The show is centered around the efforts of its four hosts, from left, Zoz Brooks, Terry Sandin, Joe Grand, and Mike North, to conceive of, design, […]
When the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica began back in the spring, we asked you to design your own Cylons. We didn’t mind if you created centurions, raiders, skin jobs or something new entirely. Well, did we ever get what we asked for — fans from all over the country sent in everything […]
[One of Pete Marchetto’s robot projects, from the dorkbot-psu Flickr Pool] Dorkbot-psu is holding their next meeting on September 3rd and is trying to get some idea of how many people will be attending. Overlord Pete Marchetto writes: dorkbot-psu meeting: Sept. 3rd, 6-9p, State College, PA We are a chapter of dorkbot, an international organization […]
Luke will be writing about the Austin maker scene, Maker Faire Austin and other interesting things… Luke Iseman lives and makes in Austin, Texas. Having escaped from his cubicle just in time to maintain a bit of creativity, he works on assorted projects all day and drives a bicycle taxi by night (really). His favorite […]
