Year: 2007

Maker Faire is just days away!

Maker Faire is just days away!

Maker Faire is just days away! * When: October 20-21, 2007 * Were: at Travis County Expo Center, 7311 Decker Lane, Austin, Texas * Hours: Saturday 10am-6pm and Sunday 10am-5pm David Umlas Flamethrowers to Firecracker HatsGreat balls of fire! This gang of fire artists will exhibit their forced air, articulated, and big fireball flamethrowers, alongside […]

Desk drawer junk motor on BBTV

Desk drawer junk motor on BBTV

On today’s Boing Boing TV, MAKE Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder shows how to make a simple electric motor out of stuff you probably have in your desk drawer. This is the same project that was in the premier Howtoons column in MAKE Volume 01. Mark’s Motor/EcoNouveau Fashion on BBTV – Link From the pages of MAKE: […]

Geotag your videos

The latest version of Google Earth added a layer for geotagged YouTube videos. So far, it seems like a lot of people are using this feature for documenting landmarks, attractions and live recordings of things like music, sporting events, backpacking trips, urban skateboarding, etc. If you have a geospatially relevant video that you want to […]

New Chumby is here!

New Chumby is here!

The new Chumby is here and it’s great! Here are some quick pics! The Chumby is an open source squeezable, Wi-Fi bean-bag computer – Link. Congrats to everyone @ Chumby and special thanks to Bunny for showing all of us what it’s like to bring a product to market like this and releasing it (including […]