Mark Frauenfelder, our editor in chief, will be speaking @ LA SIGGRAPH’s “Maker Night” — June 10th… XRay writes – Sometimes it seems like the members of ACM SIGGRAPH (Get ready for a long acronym: Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics) don’t know about the local Maker culture in Los Angeles […]
I stopped by the Girls Eye View: Project Walkway & Fashionable Technology book launch @ eyebeam. During Project Walkway eight female participants from local high school Bayard Rustin Academy for Art and Music have been learning the fundamentals of electronics and wearable technologies. The runway show ended with the book launch of Sabine Seymour’s Fashionable […]
Boing Boing TV did a really nice two-part interview with MAKE contributor, Whole Earth Catalog and Review editor, and Wired co-founder (and one of my personal heroes) Kevin Kelly. While not mainline Make: Blog fare, Kevin talks about a number of things makers might find interesting: nomadic photojournalism (and how you can take good pictures […]
This is a great way to make a vacuum pump out of a bicycle pump, for less than $20. A vacuum pump can be used for a lot of projects, not just torturing marshmallow peeps. DIY: Manual vacuum pump Related: HOW TO – Build your own Vacuum pump
Pink of Perfection shares a super quick and simple recipe for muesli, which I think makes a perfect breakfast or snack any time of year.
This is a very simple bike rack that was designed to carry 3 bikes in the back of a pickup truck. This has got to be a lot cheaper than any commercial version. There is even a 5-bike model at the end of the build instructions. Learn how to Make your own bike rack Related: […]
For those of you in the D.C. area, be sure not to miss “The Thread as the Line,” an incredible-looking show of sewn art at the Ellipse Art Center in Arlington, curated by Cynthia Connolly. From the exhibit description: Exhibiting the work of sixteen local, national and international artists, “The Thread as the Line” exposes […]
