Bring your old raincoats to Maker Faire May 3 & 4 in San Mateo and Kendra Stanley of City Bag Trade will help you turn it into a waterproof shopping bag! You’ll be able to find Kendra in the Maker Market area, Booth #905 (next to Recycleworks). Check out City Bag Trade for more info […]
Mike writes in about his super-cool Open GPS Tracker. Here is the simplest build-it-yourself GPS tracker yet. No expensive GSM module required – I am using the $20 GoPhone from WalMart or Target. Uses a 14-pin AVR microcontroller, a voltage regulator, a transistor, a GPS module 2 inches across, and that’s it. My open source […]
Waldemeyer (one of my favorite and prolific makers in the world) has a stunning POV project… I just returned from the Milano Salone del Mobile which was very unusual for me: no large and complicated show pieces this year. Instead a small but significant project, a piece of jewelry for Flos to mark the start […]
Collin sent me an email about this awesome railgun that has been posted in the MAKE Flickr Photo Pool. It looks like the builder used about 42, very large capacitors. All of them are dangerously easy to touch. Hopefully there will be a write-up soon, so we can learn more about how it was made. […]
WiiMan is a full action figure costume of a super hero that functions as a Nintendo WiiMote remote.
Sonya Nimri guest posts on the Pink of Perfection blog and shows how to transform boots into pretty daisy gardening boots. Sonya, author of the fabulous new book Beadalicious, will be at the Maker Faire, May 3-4 where she’ll have a “Clothing Makeover” booth. She’ll also be on the CRAFT stage at 1pm on Saturday […]
Mechanical artist and Renaissance Man, Tim Hunkin, has created a giant automaton clock for the London Zoo. This complex kinetic sculpture is base on the theme of Victorian Era attitudes towards the animal kingdom – london zoo clock & making of via The Automata. More: The Secret life of Machines – videos.
