Scott at Laughing Squid writes: Star Wars Uncut is a collaborative project where Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope has been chopped up into 15 second clips, which were then claimed by 472 people who are now recreating each segment and then uploading them to the project so that they can be stitched together […]
In the latest Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools, Erik Knutzen, from Homegrown Evolution, reviews Backwoods Home Magazine. Imagine Martha Stewart as a gun-toting Libertarian and you’ll have a good notion of the editorial outlook of Backwoods Home Magazine. What makes this magazine useful, regardless of your political persuasion, is the wealth of information written by practitioners […]
Here’s info on the next Make: NYC meeting: Challenge: Balsa Catapult Medieval geniuses, put on your gauntlets and prepare to throw them down. We’re making catapults. All shapes and sizes. The more deadly, the better! Teams will compete for most effective (devastating) design. Show and Tell Meet your fellow NYC Makers and show off your […]
Bob Stack, of GO-Tech writes: The July GO-Tech (Ann Arbor, MI) meeting is tomorrow, July 14, at 7 pm. Everyone is welcome. We’ll have the usual assortment of 5-minute presentations–so bring your cool demos. Topics in the past have ranged from metal casting to printed circuit board design to web-based home automation and everything in […]
A group of makers in the Kansas City area is organizing a meeting to talk about the forming of a Make: KC group. They write: Do you enjoy creating new inventions or taking things apart to see how they work? Maybe you’ve seen some of the do-it-yourself projects in MAKE magazine but you’re not sure […]
Scott Amron of Amron Experimental wins this decade’s OMG-why-didn’t-I-think-of-that award. Via Neatorama.
You can thank Nikola Tesla for helping you read this. Before his harnessing of the energy of Niagara Falls, most electricity was transmitted via direct current. Tesla pioneered the use of alternating current that is used in our electric grid. Check into the documentary film excerpted above for more info and links.
