Visualizing Water & Sound Part 2
When not mesmerizing with anamorphic pac-man scenes in his home, creating push pin portraits, or making simple and simply amazing animated optical illusions, Facebook user Brusspup is busy turning water into waves.
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5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Things About Benedetta Piantella
New York City-based researcher, designer, innovator, and entrepreneur Benedetta Piantella is a master at overclocking her mind. She’s an adjunct professor at two universities, teaching such courses as human-computer interaction, user experience, and physical computing. Concurrently, she’s a tech consultant for UNICEF and a technology architect for Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Benedetta has cofounded two […]
5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Things About Alex Andon
San Francisco-based maker Alex Andon founded Jellyfish Art and showed us how to convert a regular aquarium into a jellyfish habitat on the pages of MAKE Volume 27. His newest venture aims to connect artisans in Guatemala, Peru, Kenya, and Mexico, through online chat, to folks who want to purchase their handmade wares. One project […]
NYC’s Next Payphone Could Be Maker-Made
Windchimes is a maker-made payphone project, and one of six finalists in NYC’s Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge. Windchimes was inspired by NYC’s community gardens and includes environmental sensors to talk over existing infrastructure.
Make: Projects Gets a Major Update
MAKE is excited to announce that we’re combining all of the project guides and techniques on makeprojects.com with the rich library of content that we produce and curate here on stage.makezine.com. This move will allow you to more easily find our growing collection of how-to guides, skill builders, and the inspiration you need to make.
When you visit the site today and in the coming weeks, you’ll notice a lot of ongoing improvements and changes. Part of this transition means that projects will no longer be on the wiki-based platform that we built with the folks at iFixit and Dozuki. If you contributed a guide on Make: Projects, never fear: your content is still accessible as html and the url to your project is redirecting to the new site.
MAKE it in China: Hacking Shenzhen
Nomiku co-founder Lisa Fetterman shares her hacks for negotiating the makers’ life in Shenzhen, China.
Shout Out to the Women of Tech
March 8 is International Women’s Day, a day of recognition started in 1911 and celebrated across the globe. What better time to give a shout out to the amazing women of tech. A dear friend of mine, Trish Gray, who is senior development manager of O’Reilly School of Technology and a talented programmer, studied computer […]
