October 8th, 2012

Stephen Wolfram at Maker Faire: “Every year there’s more and more for me to learn from my children”

Mark Frauenfelder

Mark Frauenfelder is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Make: magazine, and the founder of the popular Boing Boing blog.

Mathematica creator Stephen Wolfram gave a talk at World Maker Faire New York 2012, but his 13-year-old son Christopher stole the show by doing some Mathematica programming on the fly to control a quadricopter.

Circuit Board Skeletons

By Goli Mohammadi

Goli Mohammadi

I'm a word nerd who loves to geek out on how emerging technology affects the lexicon. I was an editor on the first 40 volumes of MAKE, and I love shining light on the incredible makers in our community. In particular, covering art is my passion — after all, art is the first thing most of us ever made. When not fawning over perfect word choices, I can be found on the nearest mountain, looking for untouched powder fields and ideal alpine lakes.

Contact me at snowgoli@gmail.com or via @snowgoli.

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I was really struck by Canadian artist Peter McFarlane’s circuit board skeleton, and his views on electronic waste. The series includes skeletons, sculptures, and paintings.

Mechanical Donkey Kong

By John Baichtal

John Baichtal

My interests include writing, electronics, RPGs, scifi, hackers & hackerspaces, 3D printing, building sets & toys. @johnbaichtal nerdage.net

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M.S. Raynsford’s mechanical game looks super cool! And he’s working on a new version. I finally present to you my mechanical donkey kong V1. A simplified version of the original plan due to time constraints this one rotates the Mario, jumps over the balls and operates the feed and catchment mechanisms. Made almost entirely from […]

Mind-powered Animal Ears

By Gillian

Gillian

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Yesterday I went to check out Burning Man Decompression in San Francisco. As always, there were incredible costumes: a pair of giant cardboard robots, interacting with passersby, a gentleman dressed as a walking gold lamé shower, and my personal favorite, brainwave-controlled animal ears.

Custom Twitter Backgrounds

By Lish Dorset

Lish Dorset

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If you have a crafty business and have a Twitter profile for it, you might have noticed the new, bigger header images being rolled out across the platform the past few weeks. If you’re looking to update yours, take a look at this idea roundup from Shutterstock for a bit of inspiration.

How-To: Button Rings

By Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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