Counting Down to World Maker Faire!
Maker Faire NY opens in 39 days and counting. There are still opportunities to participate or assist our team.
Announcements
Makey Awards 2012 Nominee 06, element14, Education
Launched in 2009, element14 bills itself as “the first online community specifically for engineers.” e14, as it’s commonly known, is a subsidiary of British conglomerate Premier Farnell plc, which also owns Newark Electronics. Since launch, e14 has enjoyed widespread acclaim in the maker community, bolstered in no small part by their ongoing sponsorship of celebrity console modder Benjamin Heckendorn…
Maker Camp Gets an Inside Look at the CERN LHC
Join Maker Camp for Field Trip Friday as they travel to CERN to get an inside peek at the HLC and the CMS Experiment!
iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino Author Presenting a Masterclass in London 8 October
Alasdair Allan, author of iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino, is presenting an iOS Sensors and External Hardware Masterclass in London in October: This one day course will guide you through developing location aware applications for the iOS platforms that make use of the onboard sensors: the 3-axis accelerometer, the magnetometer, the gyroscope, the camera and […]
Support Action Kivu
Alissa Carlton, of Handmade by Alissa, checked in with us to let us know about the third annual Action Kivu fundraiser. Action Kivu helps women who are victims of the conflict in Eastern Congo by teaching them to sew at a sewing workshop. Action Kivu also pays for children to go to school. Check out […]
Makey Awards 2012 Nominee 05: Parrot USA, Most Repairable
The Parrot.AR drone teardown on iFixIt saw one of the highest repairability scores that our pals over there have ever awarded. They cite the Parrot.AR’s repair-friendly design, the use of easily demountable fasteners, connectors, and subassemblies, and great repair support from Parrot itself, including readily available replacement parts and a series of how-to-fix it videos on the Parrot.AR site. And while a certain amount of repair-friendly design is just common sense in any R/C aircraft, common sense is not always so common, and even in the R/C market Parrot’s repairability still goes above and beyond the norm.
Call for Vendors: Bazaar Bizarre San Francisco
I love the holiday season for so many reasons and a full list of craft shows across the country is one of them. Our friends at Bazaar Bizarre San Francisco checked in with us recently as they get ready for their holiday show this December. Take a look at some important info, including how to […]
