Make Free — The Half-Life of Stuff
Here’s what gets me excited about making: it lets you build stuff the way we build software.
Makers
Rick Schertle: Maker, Teacher, Father, Author
Rick Schertle has been a part of the MAKE community for years now. He’s authored projects, created a kit, and been to many a Maker Faire. To top it off, he’s an incredibly nice guy. When he’s not busy teaching a classroom of kids during his day job, he’s teaching kids the joy of […]
The Power of Making at the V&A
A remarkable exhibit on the maker movement had been running since September at London’s Victoria and Albert museum, having just closed in January. A visit over the holidays to London gave me a chance to see the exhibit for myself. The show collects the products, processes, and tools from dozens of makers throughout the world, […]
Make: Talk 001 – Steve Hoefer, Secret-Knock Gumball Machine
Here’s the first episode of MAKE’s new podcast, Make: Talk! In each episode, I’ll interview one of the makers from the pages of the magazine. We created Make: Talk because we wanted to find out about the people who write the how-to articles in MAKE. As you might guess, MAKE’s authors are often as interesting […]
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Our featured image from the MAKE Flickr pool, this week, from Robert Birkenes, is a lovely work-in-progress shot showing off his build of Ross Orr’s Panoramic Pinhole Camera project from MAKE Vol 09.I’m also partial to Michael Jones’ shot of the wooden clockworks he’s building based on Clayton Boyer’s plans. Oh, and that wooden spool […]
Thomas Edison Honored in Shinto Ritual
My friend, and HacDC cohort, Katie Bechtold, who’s been living in Japan of late, posted this item to her Flickr photostream: Ema are small wooden plaques on which Shinto worshippers write their prayers or wishes. Thomas Edison used bamboo from the area around this shrine as a filament for his first light bulbs, and nowadays […]
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Our featured image from the MAKE Flickr pool this week is by regular contributor Peter Barvoets, aka lookseeseen. Its subject is a glowing Geissler tube (Wikipedia), an early type of low-pressure gas discharge tube invented in Germany in 1857. Peter has another great shot of the same tube here.