Year: 2008

Making Austin Weird: Shopbot

Making Austin Weird: Shopbot

From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I’ll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there! Shopbot will be out in full force this weekend, including a complete DIY house project: The New Orleans House Project is prefabricated housing that can be […]

Making Austin Weird: DIY Juggling

Making Austin Weird: DIY Juggling

From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I’ll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there! You won’t just be doing this with your schedule to see all the projects this weekend, but also with homemade juggling clubs! From juggler.org : Learn […]

Making Austin Weird: NYU ITP

Making Austin Weird: NYU ITP

From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I’ll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there! NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program will be showcasing their Yahoo photo-uploading geo-tagging bikes and talking shop about their other projects at Maker Faire Austin. Check out their […]

Making Austin Weird: LED Art Kits

Making Austin Weird: LED Art Kits

From now until the awesomeness that is Maker Faire Austin, I’ll be highlighting projects that you can find at Travis County Fairgrounds on 10/18-19. Tickets here; see you there! From the creator of Blinkybug, here’s a beautiful new kit debuting at Maker Faire Austin: I’ll have these new LED Art Kits ready for the upcoming […]

Keyboard Keys make a TEXTile

PT @ MAKE points us to Jean Shin’s TEXTile: In this interactive sculpture, thousands of recycled keyboard keys are embedded into a continuous textile. The keys spell out a line-by-line transcript of the email correspondence between the artist and fabricators regarding the creation of the artwork. As a result, the sculpture documents its own making. […]