The James Dyson Awards have a simple brief: “Design something that solves a problem.” The top video is for a conductive body paint (not sure what problem that solves, but still cool), the second is for a kind of fastener technology for consumer electronics that would make post-consumer disassembly much faster and cheaper (looks like […]
Former Make: Online contributor Jonah Brucker-Cohen wrote in to tell us about ReFunct 09, a symposium of the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, that he’s involved with. This series of events will combine workshops, discussions, performances, and an exhibition on hardware hacking and circuit bending. On August 22, Jonah will be presenting one of his […]
Just wanted our readers to know that we’ve revamped our Projects section (the orange tab at the top) of the site. Make: Projects now contains all of the longer, original step-by-step projects we’ve posted on MAKE. We’re working on a categorized project listing as well, so you can browse by key categories. We’ve also added […]
MAKE, Volume 19 features a special section on robots. Learn how to make a model plane with an autopilot and a small built-in robot brain. We also show you how to make a comfortable plywood chair, a bicyclist’s vest that shows how fast you’re going, and projects that introduce you to servomotors. There’s a free […]
Parallax announced their 2009 Propeller design contest. The deadline is November 16, 2009, so you still have plenty of time to get your project started. The grand prize is $2000! Projects will be judged according to the following factors: 30% Propeller Design Appropriateness Determined on applicant’s ability to use the Propeller’s unique architecture to achieve […]
MAKE’s most wonderful editorial assistant, Laura Cochrane, has been helping us host a series of Mini Maker Faires this summer. Here she files a little report about last weekend’s event, held at Copperfield’s Books in Petaluma, CA. The video was shot by Brian Rawson for Copperfield’s. – Gareth Last Saturday, I helped out at the […]
Did you know about our daily tips service, called make_tips? It’s a Twitter account that will send you a tip every day from us here at MAKE (we have one for CRAFT, too), so you can either follow us there or check out the tip each day in the site sidebar. We publish tip submissions, […]
