Historicon 2012, “Historical Miniature Gaming’s Biggest Summer Vacation,” is held at the Fredericksburg Expo & Conference Center in Fredericksburg, VA, and will take place July 19-22. Each year HISTORICON draws about 3500-4000 people from around the world and around 100 vendors offering everything you need to recreate military battles from across history or alternate battles […]
Maker Faire North Carolina was this weekend. We have more coverage coming up, but Jon Danforth, one of the event’s organizers, thought this photo was too fun not to share right away.
Europe has some pretty awesome hacker camps, but ToorCamp is the only one in the States that I know of. ToorCamp, the American hacker camp, first “launched” at the Titan-1 Missile Silo in Washington State in 2009. We’re continuing the tradition on the beautiful Washington Coast and are looking for groups to participate. Show off […]
robfitz on the hackerspaces.org blog put out a call for hackerspaces to participate in this month’s global synchronous hackathon. The challenge for the June Synchronous Hackathon is inspired by Adam Savage, the co-host of MythBusters, who gave a talk a couple of weeks ago at Maker Faire Bay Area 2012. In Adam’s talk titled “Why […]
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The suggestions for nominees in the 2012 MAKE Magazine Industry Maker Awards are staring to come in. We have some fine candidates so far. One surprise nominee that we received from several people was Altoids, for their mint tins which have become something of their own category of project box in hobby electronics. We giggled at the first suggestion and then took it more seriously when we got the second. Why not?
Costumer crazy-man Shawn Thorsson wows the crowds at Maker Faire with his Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine armor.
