This workshop looks like it will be a really interesting combination of electronics and activism, soldering and information privacy. Build your own rfid sniffer from Marc Boon’s kit. If you’re in or around Amsterdam, I hope you can attend one of the two additional workshops they’ve scheduled since the first one has filled up, April […]
On Wednesday at 4pm EDT, Magda Sayeg aka PolyCotN from Knitta, Please, will be in Etsy’s Virtual Labs encouraging guerilla crafting! Come on by and get inspired to start your own street crafting crew. Read a recent interview with Magda at The Storque.
This Month’s Handmade Music event is shaping up quite nicely indeed. Peter of CDM gives a rundown of what to expect – Handmade Music projects will again explode into the nerdster party in Brooklyn, with more ways to get involved worldwide. The science fair-meets-music lounge event hits Thursday night, and this time, you can walk […]
If you remember the Google SketchUp Gingerbread House Competition, you may be interested in the new Student Bridge Modeling Competition: Are you in awe of the engineering that goes into designing a bridge? Do you have a favorite local, famous, or historical bridge you’d like to see in Google Earth? Now you have a chance […]
Asia Ward is a talented Maker who also works at the Science Museum of Minnesota. She makes interactive sculptures that jiggle, shuffle, squeak, and recoil using electronic toys, household gadgets, worn out cloth, leather, glass, plastic and rubber. In the past, she’s mounted a show called “The Re-Fleshing of Childhood,” which featured her toy-like figures […]
Make: Day was held at the Science Museum of Minnesota, a place which prides itself in allowing kids to be able to touch and interact with pretty much anything in the building. Of course, when it comes to kids and hands-on learning, MAKE Magazine and Make: television feel exactly the same way, so we think […]
Twin Cities DIY group, Studio Bricolage, made a Paint Pendulum for Make: Day. The paint pendulum is a three story-long cable weighted by a 10-pound bowling ball at the end. The bowling ball has 4 remote controlled paint nozzles mounted to it which allows the crowd to control the paint being flung onto a huge […]
