We’re very excited that our guest this afternoon will be Forrest M. Mims III, the amateur scientist and electronics guru, who wrote the iconic Getting Started in Electronics and the Engineer’s Mini-Notebook series for Radio Shack. Forrest also has a new column in MAKE, The Country Scientist, which premiered in Volume 17. Also, we’ll be […]
Hurrah! It’s officially Spring today! Indie Fixx picks the best Easter basket goodies in their roundup of cool toys from push birdies and bunnies, to wood toys and flower accessories.
Via BoingBoing, check out Brian Dettmer’s awesome sculptures! David Pescovitz writes: Atlanta-based artist Brian Dettmer creates marvelous sculptures by performing surgery on books. He has a show opening April 3 at Chicago’s Packer Schopf Gallery. The gallery kindly sent a few sneak peeks at the new work.
Many Noise Toys were born at last night’s Handmade Music event. Kit creators Loud Objects were on hand assisting with assembly and soldering basics for those new to the sport. Bret Truchan, creator of GlitchDS (and its forthcoming desktop iteration), demonstrated his cellular automata based software and Eric Beug explained the inner workings of his […]
Featured on Apartment Therapy LA, our own Jenny Ryan, who’s been in the process of an amazing kitchen transformation these last few months, shows you how to make this cool hideaway kitchen cupboard message center.
Following on President Obama’s call to “begin again the work of remaking America”, Maker Faire 2009 will be organized around the theme of Re-Make America. We’re looking to showcase “the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things.” Crafty makers, this is your chance to share your skills and knowledge with the Bay Area community and […]
Make: television Season One has come and gone. But in case you missed it, we’ll be rolling out the ten episodes of our premiere season again. Episode Two, take two, coming at you: Maker Cris Benton takes spectacular aerial photographs by rigging remote-controlled cameras to high flying kites. In the Maker Workshop John Park builds […]
