Big news! Maker Faire has its own channel on YouTube. We’re publishing videos from our 2011 Bay Area and Detroit Maker Faires regularly over the next few months. We’re extremely excited and proud to share these maker profiles with you, so if you want to keep up to date on the latest, be sure to subscribe on YouTube.
Big news! Maker Faire has its own channel on YouTube. We’re publishing videos from our 2011 Bay Area and Detroit Maker Faires regularly over the next few months. We’re extremely excited and proud to share these maker profiles with you, so if you want to keep up to date on the latest, be sure to subscribe on YouTube.
Check out this nifty Google map that shows which RadioShack locations throughout New York City and beyond that are offer discounted World Maker Faire tickets. Discounted One Day Tickets will be available at various Radio Shack locations throughout New York. Save $5 per ticket, avoid lines onsite, and support your local community by visiting RadioShack locations up through the event.
If you’re in San Francisco this Friday and are looking for some makerly entertainment, consider checking out the Thingamajigs Fundraiser Concert at Meridian Gallery. Proceeds from the event go to help artists attend the 14th Annual Music for People & Thingamajigs Festival in September.
Lego, founded by father and son Ole and Gotfred Kirk Christiansen in Billund, Denmark, in 1932, injection molded its first modern-style Lego brick in 1963. Shortly thereafter, in 1964, they introduced the first of their Lego system toys that included printed instructions. Since that time, Lego has manufactured models that range from about ten pieces up to their largest set ever…
The concept of interactive “smart cubes” has been around for awhile, but the introduction of Sifteo brings the concept to full market realization. The basic idea is to have a set of wirelessly-connected blocks that have embedded MCUs and LCD screens that change image and function in relation to the other blocks around them.
In April, 2009, Time Warner Cable, amid mounting concerns about flagging US competency in core technical areas, announced that it would be giving away $100 million to educational programs working in core science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines—the so-called STEM fields. Their Connect a Million Minds initiative, which is scheduled to run until 2013, has already collected almost 400,000 of its stated million-pledge goal.
