World Maker Faire New York Call For Makers!
The Call for Makers for the 3rd Annual World Maker Faire in NYC is now open! Enter your project to take part in the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth.
Announcements
Commence Voting for Project Remake
Voting for Project Remake is now open. Vote the maker you think most deserves to travel to NYC for World Maker Faire, and while you’re at it enter the sweepstakes to win a Nissan LEAF all-electric car!
Save the Power Racing Series
The Power Racing Series is an event there teams from across the country modify plastic, electric ride on vehicles into full-fledged racing machines. Because setting up races is expensive, they’ve set up an indiegogo campaign so we can help support this maker event!
Free Webcast from Arduino Cookbook Author Michael Margolis
On Tuesday, June 19, 2012, the author of the Arduino Cookbook is offering a free webcast, Expanding the Capabilities of your Arduino Projects: Michael Margolis is the author of Arduino Cookbook 2nd Edition, a collection of projects utilizing the physical computing platform of Arduino, the open source electronics prototyping platform. In this webcast Michael will […]
Introducing Hack a Day: the retro edition
Love the news coming from Hack a Day Hack a Day hasn’t change its format since 2004. Even though MAKE has gone Web 2.0 with buttons using mouseover, and Instructables has fancy drop-down menus, Hack a Day has been a constant black background, green text child of the web circa 2004. A while ago, we […]
June is Ceramics Month
May, Maker Faire, and Reclaimed Materials Month are behind us, and we’re continuing our 2012 materials theme in June by focusing on ceramics.
Makey Awards 2012 Nominee 01: Altoids Tin, Most Hackable Gadget
The suggestions for nominees in the 2012 MAKE Magazine Industry Maker Awards are staring to come in. We have some fine candidates so far. One surprise nominee that we received from several people was Altoids, for their mint tins which have become something of their own category of project box in hobby electronics. We giggled at the first suggestion and then took it more seriously when we got the second. Why not?
