We’re trying something out new this week – here are a few of the best posts this week from GeekDad, the parenting blog at Wired.com — one of our favorite sites! Tallest LEGO Tower Record Is Broken … Again Kids in Vienna build the largest LEGO tower ever, only a month after the last time […]
I saw the latest James Bond movie Quantum of Solace – besides some cool 3D phone imaging and some touch screen action there wasn’t a lot in terms of gadgety spy gear. There was a hydrogen powered hotel but in the end that didn’t really work out. So, if you’re like most makers you probably […]
Hey Makers, This is David J. Neff and you may know me as the MAKE Halloween blogger, but after meeting all the guys and gal from MAKE at Maker Faire Austin 2008 they thought I should join the party that’s still going on. So I have been asked to build some of the kits from […]
Tomas Carrillo designed this cardboard laptop stand: I wanted something that could raise my laptop screen by 8″ and not show too much cardboard. The final result is a stand that is partially hidden by the laptop’s keyboard and takes up a small amount of desktop space. Although this stand has held up well under […]
News from Regine at WMMNA: The Medialab-Prado people are launching the latest of their increasingly successful interactivos? calls for the presentation of projects. A maximum of 8 projects will be selected for their production in a workshop that will take place in Madrid on January 28 to February 14, 2009. Happy project leaders will count […]
IT’S EMAIL TIME – Innocent-looking “clock” monitors the unread-message pileup in your inbox – by Tom Igoe. I have a lot of anxiety about email. Every kilobyte in my Inbox destroys another minute of my life, but I can’t stop checking it. So I decided to embody my anxiety in a device that would worry […]
I had just set the doll down on the floor of my studio when my kids walked in to see what I was making. Unfortunately, I was in the process of disemboweling yet another one of their beloved toys. This has happened once before during my Mechamo Crab build so I should have known better […]
