MAKE visits GE
Last week, the New York-based MAKE team head up to GE’s research center in Niskayuna, NY to meet some of their engineers, many of whom are makers in addition to what they make at work.
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Mark Hoekstra Award
One year ago Sunday, we learned of the sad death of MAKE Contributor and GEEK Technique blogger Mark Hoekstra. Only 34 years old, Mark had a heart attack while riding his bike. The maker/hardware hacking world misses him and the fun stuff he used to put up on his site. To mark the first anniversary […]
Coffee, start to finish
What a cute video about roasting, grinding, and siphon-brewing coffee. Style points for the Gershon Kingsley soundtrack, and it’s not even Friday!
Fascination: Mackenzie Cowell
Mackenzie Cowell is one of the founders of DIYbio.org. He is featured in the most recent of our ongoing series of video interviews with notable makers, sponsored by Dow chemical, over at elementsofhumanity.com. Mac is a big advocate, not just of the fledgling discipline of synthetic biology (or “biological engineering,” as it’s coming to be […]
Prop art
There is in fact no evidence that this wonderful perpetually-drumming-fingers automaton by Nik Ramage was ever intended to be anything but a piece of art. But it had the bad fortune to come across my desk in the midst of the Make: Halloween Contest 2009 frenzy so I am hereby diminishing it to the status of Halloween prop. At least potentially. Personally, if I could afford one I’d leave it out all year under a spotlight. Beautiful.
Bling for your bricks
There’s almost nothing that makes me as happy as a little Lego entrepreneurship. Remember BrickArms? Well, now there’s ChromeBricks, which will custom electroplate Lego elements of your choice, in your choice of gold, chrome, or copper. [via The Brothers Brick]
Ignite talk on “Adapting with Technology”
Mark Argo give a terrific little five-minute talk on the history of DIY gadgetry and what we can learn from past as we try to forge a more personalized, DIY future. Ignite
