A fast moving look at the best of Maker Faire 2009. If you love to MAKE, create, learn, invent, CRAFT, recycle, act up, think, play and be inspired by celebrating arts, then start making plans for the next Maker Faire. Next week: A new series of Weekend Projects from Maker Faire begins!
Adafruit has a new posting with a link to their latest Drawdio Instructable, a new Instructables Drawdio group, and an announcement of an exhibit being mounted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. They’re doing a Drawdio exhibit this summer, from July 25th to September 25th, as part of “Freeze! 2009 International MedTech Art […]
When not working on Make: television, writing for Make: Online, and working as a character mechanic for Disney, our bud John Edgar Park, along with fellow MAKE contributors Brian Jepson and Tod Kurt, have been burning the midnight solder on some new peripherals for the Arduino world that they’ve dubbed WingShields. The first kit in […]
MAKE contributor Tod E. Kurt created this sticker, with all of the pin assignments labeled, to go on top of the ATmega chip. Arduino chip sticker label
“Repurpose”, an awesome little documentary short by Jack Oatmon. The video is centered around Montreal’s Foulab hardware hacking group and aims to introduce the hackerspace concept to newcomers. Why are more and more hobbyists experimenting with hacks and circuit bends? What relationship does this imply about consumer society and technological advancement? Is this a real-world […]
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s FSR tutorial, Limor and Phil continue their Sensor Tutorial series with another crystal-clear exposition of a component, this one on the photocell (aka CdS, LDR, photoresistor). Great stuff, guys. Thanks! Photocells
Adafruit has posted another one of their awesome electronics tutorials, this one on Force Sensitive Resistors. Force Sensitive Resistors are for squeezing!
