Plastic Bags into Plastic Blocks: Revisited
Join me in my continuing journey to make a solid building material from plastic bags. My latest experiment has potential. How can you add to it?
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5, 4, 3, 2, 1 About Andrew Dawes
Andrew Dawes is teaching our new Training Camp: Introduction to Arduino. By day, Andy is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Pacific University, where he leads a group of undergraduate research students in several fields of physics: atom cooling and trapping, pattern-forming nonlinear optics, slow- and fast-light, and the application of optical systems to quantum information science (I’m sure he will translate that in the Camp). By night, he builds robots, teaches himself 3-D printing and is a proud father of three.
Vancouver’s Vibrant Maker Community
There’s no better way to see the maker stripes of a community than at their Maker Faire. This weekend, June 1 and 2, I’ve had a chance to check out the third annual Vancouver Mini Maker Faire in Canada. Creativity and good vibes were all around. Artists, engineers, hackerspaces, crafters, speakers, young and old all […]
“Being John Makervich” and Musical Chess at Maker Faire Seoul
Preview of great projects showing at this weekend’s second annual Maker Faire Seoul.
MAKE Asks: Making out of Necessity
MAKE Asks: is a weekly column where we ask you, our readers, for responses to maker-related questions. We hope the column sparks interesting conversation and is a way for us to get to know more about each other.
Maker Projects Guide: MAKE Special Issue on Sale Now
MAKE’s “Maker Projects Guide” goes on sale at newsstands today! The 112-page special issue is loaded with 42 projects–some new, some classics, and all chosen to inspire the maker in you. The issue is all about makers and the inspiring projects they make.
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