Tina Brown on Feckless Zombies
I am hoping — and I know that it’s a long shot — that the economic collapse will give birth new kinds of companies — ones truly committed to making excellent products again. Let’s run the zombies out of town.
Year: 2008
Hotel room prototyping
I traveled to the Twin Cities to shoot the Maker Workshop segments of Make: television, so I needed to bring along a lot of my tools, materials, supplies, and parts. Both for on-screen making, and hotel room tinkering. Sometimes, we figured out how to present our projects at the eleventh hour, so I had one […]
Made in Japan Gift Guide
In covering DIY technology from Japan, there have been quite a few kits and projects that have come along that would be of interest to makers outside of Japan, but are either not available for overseas ordering, or are available but may be subject to high shipping costs and long waits. Luckily, one very consistent […]
Blip Festival 2008 coverage
Vimeo user Tony gives us a taste of the action at this past weekend’s Blip Festival with a performance by Sulumi. The NYTimes Jenna Wortham also ran an article profiling the event – The third-annual Blip Festival kicked off its four-day showcase Thursday night. Hosted by 8bitpeoples, a New York art and tech collective, and […]
New Embroidery Kits From Artist Curlin Reed Sullivan
One of the things I love most about living in Austin is getting to meet and collaborate with loads of creative people. Curlin Reed Sullivan is an Austin-based artist whose whimsical illustrations and mixed media work has had me enamored for years. I was thrilled to be able to work with her on creating these […]
HacDC/Dorkbot DC meeting: “Birthing Hyrda II”
This Tuesday, we’re going to be holding the second of our joint HacDC/Dorkbot DC meetings called “Birthing Hydra,” where we discuss ways that the various DC-area geek orgs can work together for out mutual benefit. The panel discussion will include myself and Alberto Gaitán, Nick Farr from HacDC, and Katie Bechtold from HacDC and Linux […]
Handheld noise-boxes sound smooth
From the MAKE Flickr pool The Swooftronic SB instrument creates some sweet signals courtesy of light-controlled filter & frequency. The demo gets particularly interesting @ about the 2 minute mark. – SwooftronicSB5 on Flickr From the pages of MAKE The MoofTronic Mini Synth – MAKE: 15: Music, Page 70 Subscribers–read this article now in your […]
