Year: 2009

Real Simple Food Calculators

Real Simple magazine has some helpful interactive tools on their site. Of my two favorites, one is the Seasonal Fruit and Vegetable Tool, which not only tells you what produce is in season, but also tells you how to buy, store, and cook each fruit and vegetable. The Food Expiration Tool helps you look up […]

Tim Kaiser at Make: Day this weekend!

Tim Kaiser at Make: Day this weekend!

Rounding out the musical performances at this weekend’s Make: Day will be Tim Kaiser, an awesome Maker who creates music from his own handmade instruments. Tim will have about 15 different instruments and audio fx units along with a small amplifier. He’ll also have some simple instruments, parts and piezo-electric pick-ups available to demonstrate basic […]

Make: television Episode 1

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, starting of course with Episode 1 which features the amazing bicycle wizardry of Cyclecide, and the VCR Cat Feeder in the Maker Workshop: Meet Cyclecide, an inventive band of […]

Learning Electronics Merit Badges

Merit badges are a long-standing tradition, so I’m glad to see Adafruit Industries keeping up with the times: “Learning electronics” merit badges from Adafruit Industries – In a week or so we will be including “learning electronics” merit badges in some of our kits & tool packs at Adafruit Industries. The first one is “learning […]