Ikea just released a cookbook in Sweden titled Hembakat är Bäst, which translates to “Homemade is Best.” For each recipe, there are two images: one of the ingredients and one of the finished item. I like how they’ve laid out the ingredients – each one an autonomous entity before blending with the others to form […]
Gareth @ Make: Online writes: We have a World Maker Faire Daily widget on the front page of the Maker Faire site which includes a blog feed, the Faire’s Facebook page, and Twitter feed/Faire chatter. You can even add the widget to your own site if you want. We’ll be posting salient content from the […]
The Open Source Hardware (OSHW) Draft Definition version 0.4 is up! If you’ve followed the evolution of the definition you’ll note some updates and changes – it’s looking really solid.
Posted to the World Maker Faire Daily: The members of ArcAttack! were on site Wednesday to begin to set up. The Great Hall at the NY Hall of Science is going to be an amazing venue for their musical Tesla coils. The Great Hall, which is over 100 feet tall, was built for the 1964 […]
One of the must-stop spots at last weekend’s DIY Street Fair in Ferndale, Mich., was i3 Detroit’s DIY Silly Band Station. Some 500 bracelets were made by using 10:1 tin-based silicone. (As you’ll see in the video below, this was definitely an adult-driven activity due to the components used.) Wire shapes were formed, heated up […]
By product designer Ed Swan, the Mark Makers table is currently on display at an ongoing London design show, where visitors are invited to participate in decorating it by abrading the layered paint with sandpaper. Cool idea. I just hope there’s a big stack of free dust masks next to it.
(Pictured Above: Carol Chyau and Marie So of Shokay) By Rebecca Kanthor An international city in its past and present, Shanghai’s architecture and style has so many design influences from around the world and China that your eyes will keep busy trying to catch them all. It’s a design-oriented city, but you have to keep […]
