We are so excited to be one day away from our first ever World Maker Faire, this Saturday and Sunday at the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) in Queens. NYSCI has been a stellar partner, and of course they have some great exhibits in the works for us. We spoke with Dan Wempa, vice […]
World Maker Faire New York is this weekend, and we’ve put together a full schedule for of awesome demos for both days at the CRAFT booth. Each day this week, we’ll profile one of the folks who will be presenting. Be sure to mark your schedule and head to the CRAFT booth for all the […]
From the World Maker Faire Daily feed: One of the big hits of Maker Faire Detroit was the Power Series Racing. Good, geeky speed-demonic fun! For the World Faire, the whacked racing excitement will come by way of chariot races (brought to you by the fine folks at the Madagascar Institute). Here are a couple […]
Available only at World Maker Faire NY this weekend, Wayne and Layne’s just-launched Video Game Shield turns your Arduino into a TV video game system. You can clone retro games like PONG in 100 lines of code, and you can even get into some fancier stuff, like a 3D raytracer. (Both are shown in the video).
Pretty remarkable work here from Instructables user alexthemoviegeek, who, as an end-of-the-summer project, assembled full-sized versions of both the xenomorph queen and Ripley’s power loader from Aliens, the latter of which can be worn as a costume.
Several times a week I push my three-year-old son and our jogging stroller along the banks of the Guadalupe River on our morning run. We invariably meet homeless people, often groups, and it inspires a wide variety of emotions: sympathy, fear, anger. As a board member for the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, I […]
By Joy Charde I love Geek Craft Month! In honor of this awesome month, I thought that it would be fun to make these geek inspired printables. You can use these as gift labels, book labels, stickers or hang tags. Just download, print, crop and enjoy. Totally geeky and totally cool! Download the Pattern PDF […]
