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Recalling Everyday Things

Recalling Everyday Things

A few months ago on vacation on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, I went into a used bookstore which the proprietor proudly told me was “the westernmost bookstore in the United States.” Searching the shelves, I came upon a delightful four-volume series, “A History of Everyday Things in England“, written by Marjorie and C. H. B. Quennell, and first published in 1918. “Everyday Things” was written for boys and girls who “should be trained to do useful work and learn to use their hands.”

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Scott’s Pentagonal Dragon Tiling on a Dodecahedron

Scott’s Pentagonal Dragon Tiling on a Dodecahedron

Each face of “DodecaHedron of Dragons II” by California artist Scott Van Note is identically patterned, hand-carved on a pentagonal tiling designed by Scott himself. I had the pleasure of meeting Scott at BAMF 2011, where he was helping out at the Explorable Microscopy booth. We started talking, and he handed me this amazing object. I caught up with him, after the Faire, and got him to answer a few questions about it.

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Onyx Ashanti’s TED Performance Demo

Onyx Ashanti’s TED Performance Demo

Check out Onyx Ashanti‘s electrifying demo performance of his new Beatjazz Controller at last night’s TED 2012 Full Spectrum auditions in New York City — he’s on 34:40 – 41:10. Onyx has been designing, building, and programming the Beatjazz Controller for the past several months, and he will be writing about it (and open-sourcing the […]

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Introducing the MAKE Magazine Industry Maker Awards

Introducing the MAKE Magazine Industry Maker Awards

For a long time now, MAKE has wanted to find some way to publicly acknowledge companies that have responded in a positive way to the growing influence of maker/hacker culture. In 2006, we published The Maker’s Bill of Rights, and since then we have often been involved in exposing and lampooning particularly egregious affronts to the principles of open access to technology that it embodies.

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