Willow Brugh, of Seattle’s Jigsaw Renaissance, sent us word of this new org, Geeks Without Borders. In the above video from Gnomedex, Johnny Diggz explains the origins of the idea. Right now, they’re looking for folks to spread the word to other geeks who might be interested in being involved and they’re traveling to hackerspaces […]
In any case, if ever a thing were rightly called bitchin’, it would be this 20″ custom powder-coated steel hood ornament by metal artist and perennial Make: Online favorite Jud Turner, who made it on commission for a very lucky friend.
Remember Adam Cecchetti and Bre Pettis’s Sudo Make Me a Sandwich Robot? That’s the sort of genius that gets cooked up in hackerspaces all the time. Leave a comment with a link to your favorite completed or largely-completed project that was germinated in a hackerspace. Your own projects are fine, don’t be modest!
Being a year-round cyclist in Minnesota, Frank Yost had a problem. “Car drivers can lock things up while running errands,” he noticed, “so why should cyclists have to carry everything around with them?” And when Frank has a problem, he reaches for his pop-rivet gun. So he designed and built this all-weather, lockable College Bike […]
MAKE editor and publisher Dale Dougherty posted a pic of this Chinese issue of MAKE to his social network.
It’s a great honor for me to be able to use this Maker Birthdays forum to offer up an entry-day shout-out to one of my favorite living makers, Jeri Ellsworth. If ever there was someone for whom the fire for making appears to have been blazing since birth, it’s Jeri. She seems to live for […]
If you aren’t savvy to the phenomenon that is Club-Mate, it’s a caffeinated tea beverage brewed in Germany that’s been adopted by the hacker scene in that country as their official staying-up-late-and-coding beverage. It’s become so popular that it’s been imported to the U.S. where it fetches prices as high as $10 a bottle. Minneapolis […]
