Hacking Pizza with PizzaHacker
Earlier this week I was exiting an event in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood when I bumped into PizzaHacker and his amazing Franken-Webber portable wood burning pizza oven.
Year: 2010
Still lifes in toilet tubes
I love these little cardboard dioramas inside of toilet paper tubes, crafted by artist Anastassia Elias. Spotted on Boing Boing. I was touched by part of Cory’s post: Empty-loo-roll-day is always fun around our place, the cue to get out the stickers and markers and decorate the empty tube with Poesy [his daughter], then run […]
Young Makers
Maker Jon Sarriugarte of Oakland, California raises his daughter Zolle in the air at the 2008 Maker Faire in the Bay Area. At a higher education conference (dgree.org) last week, I met Marie who told me the following story about her young daughter, Annika. “I have a son who is a whiz at math. I’ve […]
Letters from the Fab Academy, Part 1
As part of our coverage of 3D printing, laser-cutting, CNC routing, and other forms of desktop fabbing — to coincide with the new “Your Desktop Factory” issue of MAKE — we’re thrilled to welcome guest contributor Shawn Wallace. Shawn is a member of AS220, the Providence, Rhode Island community arts space. From there, he weekly […]
Alt.CES: Nexus One on Tim O’Reilly’s Radar
Over on O’Reilly Radar, Tim O’Reilly gives his first-blush assessment of the Google Nexus One. There will be many posts focusing on the look, feel, and features of the Nexus One, so I’m going to focus on what Android’s latest incarnation says about the competitive landscape – what I’ve elsewhere called the war for the […]
Indie Fixx Haiti Relief Fundraiser
Indie Fixx is coordinating a silent auction of items that have been donated by indie crafters, artists, and designers, and donating 100% of the proceeds to the Red Cross International Response Fund. What a great way for crafters to help the people of Haiti. Visit the Haiti Relief Fundraiser page for all the details.
Photographing Snowflakes
A few years ago I picked up Ken Libbrecht’s Field Guide to Snowflakes, thinking any self-proclaimed snow junkie like myself should own it. A renowned snow scientist and physicist, Libbrecht’s great little book taught me about snowflake fundamentals and helped me identify different types of flakes and learn what each shape tells us about the […]