Are you a maker living in the Twin Cities? Paul Sobczak is putting out a call for area hackers and makers to collaborate on creating a local hacker space. On January 6th I launched Twin Cities Maker, a website dedicated to realizing a high-tech maker shop in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. The goal of the […]
I love the people at Make and what they’ve done for the DIY community, so I jumped at the chance to guest blog here. Just a quick introduction: I’m a hacker who loves how to understand how things work inside & out. At my job, I design electronic systems; at home, I usually tend to […]
Tell Cris Benton to go fly a kite. He’ll return with breathtaking photographs taken from seemingly impossible vantage points. As a young architect, Cris wanted sharp images of his buildings’ upper reaches, so he pioneered the art/science of of aerial kite photography. Now a professor of architecture at UC Berkeley, Cris is still a leader […]
Our pal I-Wei Huang, aka Crabfu, got a nice profile on the Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet. Congrats, man.
One of the great things about Maker Faire is the opportunity to meet clever people and their fascinating projects. Often you have a conversation with a person who is highly skilled in an area you have never really considered before. This was the case when I met up with Jerry Etheridge of the North Texas […]
In just four weeks, Make: premieres on public television stations nationwide. But you can watch a preview right now. Here’s Cyclecide’s Paul Da Plumber and his Bicycle Rim Shot made out of recycled parts from the SF dump. View the clip above, get the M4V and/or subscribe in iTunes. And don’t forget to comment on […]
Next to an intersection with the main road to Mulanje works a group of men with basic tools. One of them was actively welding with a scratch built arc welder. Wire was wrapped around a group of metal plates, and the whole thing was housed in a basic wooden frame. To turn it on, the […]
