Back in late January, I did a guest blogging stint on Boing Boing. One of the things I wrote about was my new Braithwaite wallet, a beautiful laser-etched, Deco-inspired coat wallet (that I carry in my front pants pocket). In the comments to my post, one person remarked: “I can’t wait for someone to rip […]
Make: Online has won an award in Treehugger’s 1st annual Best of Green Awards. We won in the Science and Tech category as Best DIY Tech and Gadget Blog: MAKE is an easy winner for this category. The magazine’s blog is constantly filled with great ideas, hacks, instructionals, and information that keeps gadgeteers and DIYers […]
Sunday’s DIY workshop at CHI 2009 was a great time, with a thoughtful mix of academia and hands-on projects. DIY for CHI was a workshop presented at the CHI2009 conference in Boston. We had a chance to meet and greet important people who are teaching and studying the arts of creating computer interfaces with students […]
Our pal, and MAKE contributor, RU Sirius, editor of h+ (Humanity Plus) magazine, sent us word of this interview, by mathenaut and sci-fi icon Rudy Rucker, with Stephen Wolfram of Mathematica fame, talking about his upcoming Wolfram Alpha search engine. Here’s the intro to Rudy’s interview: Stephen Wolfram has warped my life three times, and […]
MAKE Contributor Editor Mister Jalopy has been making the media rounds this week. First it was Nightline earlier in the week and today it was Public Radio’s Studio 360. Okay, now it’s time for the media to focus on some of his other work besides the stereo cabinet iPod. He isn’t a one-trick pony, you […]
Well, today’s Make: Talk was fun… while it lasted. I forgot to set the time interval for the show and it’s defaulted to cut the stream at 15 minutes. Turns out, it continues to record, so we could have gone the full 45 for the archived version, but being new to this software/service, we didn’t […]
Edwin Wise is no stranger to the pages of MAKE magazine, and special effects are his specialty. It’s only natural that he contributed a couple of DIYs to our Halloween Special Issue back in 2007, including the Hot Glue Spider Web Gun and the classic animatronic prop, the Flying Crank Ghost: In Volume 13, he […]
