Maker Faire Bay Area is just about a month away, taking place on May 22 and 23 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. Every year, Maker Faire strives to inspire, educate, and entertain curious and creative learners of all ages. It celebrates arts, crafts, engineering, green design, food, music, science and technology and brings together communities […]
John Baichtal @ MAKE has a great review of the design-your-own shoe service through Zazzle. He writes: Online service Zazzle basically prints on anything. Want a one-off t-shirt or mug? They got it. It’s somewhat like Ponoko or Shapeways, you either generate your own design or choose from one of theirs, and then add-to-cart and […]
And you thought stamp collecting was geeky! I love this idea. These are cheap coin-collecting albums. What a fabulous teaching aid and way of organizing components so that students of electronics can see the parts families, different varieties of components, different package types, etc. The background labels are even color-coded so that component types are […]
Happy tax day, everyone! I love the quilled paper art of Nava Lubelsky, particularly this stunning piece made up of her 1998 tax file. (Talk about turning trash into treasure!) The pieces almost look like lichen or some kind of bacterial growth, not detritus from our ordinary lives. I’m always so inspired to see art […]
Are you telling the truth? This fun and easy to build kit uses the galvanic skin response to become your very own personal lie detector.
Make a set of sneaky earbuds that record what you hear. They create a binaural effect
when played back wearing headphones.
Make your own fire starter that uses compressed air and burns at 500 degrees!
