Manhattan area makers, get your reassembly on – Make:NYC Meeting 12 – Wednesday April 8th, 6:30PM Is it just me or is it getting warm outside? Celebrate spring with us at the next Make:NYC meeting! Challenge: Reconstruct the beast! Teams will get a box full of parts from a disassembled item. Item must be reconstructed […]
IndieSacramento is now accepting vendor applications for the IndieSacramento May Market on Saturday, May 2nd in Sacramento, CA. Check out the vendor page for more info.
Some of my Dorkbot DC cohort put on an event each year that should quicken the hearts of cogheads everyhere: Robot Fest, held at the National Electronics Museum in Linthicum, MD. Lithium-where? Linthicum, Linthicum Heights, just north of the Baltimore-Washington International Airport. Now in its 9th year, the Fest offers hands-on workshops, demonstrations, displays of […]
Don’t forget: it’s time to apply for Bazaar Bizarre at Maker Faire Bay Area! The application deadline is April 1, so you still have time for a chance to participate in this fantastic craft fair at Maker Faire Bay Area. I talked with Bazaar Bizarre co-organizer, Jamie Chan, and got the low down on what […]
(Photos by: Doug Eng and Shane O’Neill) On March 19th, I had my book release party for Fashion Geek: Clothes, Accessories, Tech at Pop Lounge. It included a fashion presentation of all of the DIY electronic fashions in the book. Here’s a look behinds the scenes of making the DIY projects into a fashion presentation. […]
A fellow graduate student at Arizona State, Victoria Altepeter, is having her MFA show right now in Tempe, AZ. She makes amazing celestially-influenced works in metals, and her show just blew my mind. It’s up all week in the Harry Wood Gallery, but if you’re not local you can enjoy it through my Flickr set […]
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day for celebrating women in technology: Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace was born on 10th December 1815, the only child of Lord Byron and his wife, Annabella. Born Augusta Ada Byron, but now known simply as Ada Lovelace, she wrote the world’s first computer programmes for the Analytical […]
