Hermes Spacecraft – Space travel for the masses One of the de facto themes of this year’s Faire, so perfectly represented by our Gothic Raygun Rocketship design centerpiece, is space and space hacking. This serves as the perfect lead-in to our upcoming DIY Space issues of MAKE. Here, our roving court photographer, Blake Maloof, captures […]
Live Streaming by Ustream.TV Hi Crafters! We are so excited that today all our demos will be live streaming on the Internet! Click for the video above or visit the Ustream page. Here’s the schedule of demos for today at CRAFT (Time is in PST): Sunday, May 23 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM Crafting with […]
The SF Chronicle posted a short piece and nice video clip of yesterday’s events at Maker Faire. If you’re within land, sea, air (or teleportation) traveling distance, beam on over. Look at all the awesome we’re having! It’s been five years since the launch of Make, a magazine for DIYers that I described back then […]
Sylvia’s Super-Awesome Maker Show: Episode 01, Drawdio – outstanding! Super Awesome Sylvia builds the Drawdio by Jay Silver from the kit by Adafruit! This doesn’t include a complete tutorial on bulding the kit, as Ladyada has done such a good tutorial [here]… Drawdio kit, available in the MakerShed.
The Brothers Brick editor Nannan Zhang, a med student at Washington University in St. Louis, created this DNA model out of Bionicle claws in honor of his research mentor’s 60th birthday. He also created another excellent DNA model that even has a secret message in the helices. [via The Brothers Brick]
A flame gulper is an old fashioned type of engine also known as a vacuum engine. According to the Wikipedia page, “A mixture of gas and air was drawn into the cylinder and ignited; the mixture expanded and part of it escaped through the exhaust valve; the valve then closed, the mixture cooled and contracted, […]
South-African-born artist Daniel Hirschmann’s matrix consists of LEDs mounted on motorized shafts that move and change colors either as programmed or through interaction with a person. Glowbits is a matrix of motorized pixels that physically move as their colors change. The result is an image with real depth and dimensionality. When Glowbits surfaces display images, […]
