THE NEW MILLENNIUM PAPER AIRPLANE CONTEST and corresponding book by Klara Hobza is a multifaceted artwork inspired by a historic paper airplane contest that took place in 1967 at the Great Hall in what is now the New York Hall of Science. Built by Wallace K. Harrison to display rockets in the 1964 World’s Fair, […]
“A U.S. entrepreneur takes tropical tourists down deep – in an uninsured submarine he built himself”… I’m posting this because the sub looks pretty cool, but the rest of the story sounds pretty dangerous to me – it seems like it’s just going to end in legal action and/or death. Many who admire Stanley’s entrepreneurial […]
Becky of Crafting a Green World has a 4 part series through Thursday this week on Yoga for Crafters. Learn the moves to soothe that sore neck or good stretches for your back after hours of crafting.
A preview of our upcoming show, debuting in January 2009: A new national series from MAKE magazine, Twin Cities Public Television, and American Public Television… The MAKE stage has gotten a whole lot bigger Make: television brings the spirit and energy of the magazine to TV sets in beautiful HD. Featuring stories of accomplished Makers […]
Todd’s article on getting the new T-Mobile G1 (Google Android) to sync with a Mac… My T-Mobile G1 phone based on Google’s Android platform arrived on Monday. It was a big change for me because I’ve been using Windows Mobile based smartphones since 2002 when I started with the very first T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone […]
At Maker Faire Austin, Evil Mad Scientist Labs was demonstrating some really simple and useful circuits powered by solar cells. Today, they’ve posted the details on their site. Interruption-resistant direct drive: The “direct drive” circuits work well for their design function, but are rather basic. They provide no energy storage, and so are quite vulnerable […]
The Atlantic has a very striking ad campaign, I like neon – so it’s fun to see these Jenny Holzer style messages in various places – the one above is my fave, very MAKE-y.
