To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Slow’s BBQ in Detroit’s historic Corktown neighborhood, the community gathered in Roosevelt Park for Rainbow Blight today, a fundraiser featuring delicious food, art project, and lots of great people. All day there’s been a fairly epic cornhole tournament going on. While I got to play for a little bit […]
Yankee Steam-Up: For model makers, Machinists, Engineers & Historians
http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=parsons-100828215301-phpapp01&stripped_title=sparklelab-widget-makers&userName=arielchuri SparkleLab: Widget Makers @ Parsons, Ariel writes – I am teaching a new class at Parsons School of Design. SparkleLab: Widget Makers is similar to a your standard physical computing class. We cover basic electronics and microcontrollers with Arduino. But, instead of thinking up some contraption to make, we will create relatively simple devices. […]
Here is our weekly listing of upcoming craft fairs. Please add any events you know of to our online calendar, and if you have a call for vendors you’d like listed, please . Click on the jump for the East Coast call for vendors. Coming Up This Weekend: The k11 October Craft Sale Berkeley, CA […]
The 3rd Annual 2010 Great West End & Railroad Square Handcar Regatta & Exposition of Mechanical & Artistic Wonders this past weekend was a blast (from the past)! Taking place in MAKE’s stomping grounds of Sonoma County, the event invites crews to create contraptions full of engineering prowess (and whimsy) to race on the defunct […]
SoOnCon 2010 is the Southern Ontario Hackerspaces & Makers Mini-Conference. The Friday night festivities begin with a catered reception for registered participants and a cash bar. Registered Participants are free to bring a guest for an additional $20 at the door. Saturday is an all-day event with a keynote speaker, talks, demonstrations, workshops, and projects! […]
On my radar this week is Marc Newson’s show at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea. Newson approaches design as an experimental exercise in extreme structure and advanced technologies, combined with a highly tactile and exacting exploration of materials, processes, and skills. As an industrial designer, his reach is broad and diverse, from concept jets and cars […]
