This month’s Open MAKE/Young Makers program is Saturday, Feb 19th at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. The theme is cardboard. Featured makers will be interviewed by MAKE’s Dale Dougherty in the McBean Theater between 1 and 2pm. This month’s makers are: The Cardboard Institute of Technology has been building a large installation in the Tinkering […]
We are thrilled to the gills to be announcing the official “Call For Makers” for Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. From the announcement, by Faire Director Sherry Huss: We are now accepting entries for the 6th Annual Maker Faire Bay Area, May 21 and 22, 2011 at the San Mateo Event Center. We look forward […]
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw:
B.Light Design’s successful test of chalk in an Egg-Bot.
Wonderground’s first thing-a-day: resistor dodecahedra!
Pete Prodoehl’s panorama of the main room at Milwaukee Makerspace.
Alex Finn’s LED Matrix.
The interior of Copper Pete’s Switch-toid.
This weekend is the Superbowl, Sunday, February 6, 2011 – 6:30pm ET. It’s the Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Green Bay Packers. Like many busy people with a of couple jobs, I didn’t know anything about these teams and didn’t realize it was football season, but I admire the skill, dedication, and technology that goes into the […]
Photograph: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke/EPA Kyle Wiens, of iFixit, sent us the link to this photo essay from the UK Guardian showing Egyptian protesters improvising helmets in the heat of battle. Protesters are also rerouting power from street lights to recharge their cell phone. One twitter user jokingly dubbed this […]
Here’s the TED@MotorCity talk that Maker Media General Manager Dale Dougherty gave last month. I love the enthusiasm Dale has for the enthusiasts we call “makers.” I also really like the idea of “playing technology” (and the power of playing technology in groups).
I loved this mini documentary of custom motorcycle creator Shinya Kamura. [Via yatzer]
