Year: 2008

Branching Out

Hey Makers, This is David J. Neff and you may know me as the MAKE Halloween blogger, but after meeting all the guys and gal from MAKE at Maker Faire Austin 2008 they thought I should join the party that’s still going on. So I have been asked to build some of the kits from […]

Scan this book 2.0

Scan this book 2.0

New Scientist reports that Alexander Besher’s new multimedia sci-fi novel, Manga Man, is not only available to read online, you can have it published to your mobile phone by scanning a QR code on a promotional t-shirt. More unusually (at least by Western standards) is that the book is being published direct to mobile phones. […]

“Boston for Science Lovers”

“Boston for Science Lovers”

Nice round up of things for makers, science lovers and more to do in Boston @ The NYTimes… When you run an ice cream parlor down the street from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, you expect your customers to chat about stem cell research or trade theories about neutrinos between licks of burnt caramel. But […]

Cardboard laptop stand

Cardboard laptop stand

Tomas Carrillo designed this cardboard laptop stand: I wanted something that could raise my laptop screen by 8″ and not show too much cardboard. The final result is a stand that is partially hidden by the laptop’s keyboard and takes up a small amount of desktop space. Although this stand has held up well under […]