The fine repair gurus at iFixit.com hosted an amazing repair area at last year’s Maker Faire Bay Area. They obviously put so much love and care into it and folks looked like they were learning a lot and having a great time. I was happy to give them one of my Editor’s Choice Blue Ribbons […]
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Fingertip input is great for most touchscreen usage like typing, web-browsing – all sorts of virtual button-pushing tasks. But for many people, drawing remains an activity best approached with a pen, pencil, brush, etc.
With a bit of conductive foam and wire, it’s surprisingly easy to make your own conductive stylus, suitable for use with iPhone, iPad and similar conductive touchscreen devices – and you’ll likely find it a lot more precise compared to regular fingertip input.
Every year, Maker Faire displays the perfect, harmonious blend of art and tech, science and craft, and everything in between. This year’s Maker Faire Bay Area, truly the world’s largest DIY festival, takes place at the San Mateo Fairgrounds on May 22nd and 23rd. One of the new makers presenting is Jason Dietz, and he’s […]
JesterVineo’s awesome HUL-10 2.0 — that’s right, he and his kids built TWO coasterbots! We’ve decided to extend the deadline on the Make: Robot Build, until Monday, May 10, 11:59pm PDT. We’ve seen a number of amazing projects in the works and wanted to make sure everyone has time to submit their entries. This will […]
Chris Connors @ Make: Online writes: Angela Sheehan has taken on a series of projects inspired in part by CRAFT and the Fashioning Technology book and site. She showed her work at the recent Cambridge Mini Maker Faire and walked me through it. Her site, Soft Circuit Saturdays has a nice collection of clever projects.
Robert Oschler (Boise, Idaho), of RobotsRule and the creator of Robodance, the robot control software, is about to release version 5.0 of his software. In this sneak peek video, he shows us how he uses the Emotiv EPOC headset to control a WowWee Rovio. Here’s a link to the article that explains how he used […]
We’re only a few weeks out from Maker Faire Bay Area, and things are really gearing up for a fantastic weekend. As a special countdown to Maker Faire, we’ll be profiling some of the awesome folks who will be at Bazaar Bizarre at Maker Faire. Even if you aren’t able to be at Maker Faire, […]
