Ok, raise your hand if you’re watching the “Lost” finale tonight? I thought so! Hopefully you’ve made some great “Lost” treats for the party, just like Sam Walker’s handmade cupcake holder. Make sure to let us know if you made your own “Lost” party favors, too! [via Agent M Loves Tacos]
Kim Pedersen of monorails.org write in to share how he was able to see the Faire for free.
One of the highlights of our tour of the Maker Faire grounds last Thursday was this “Wayward Calliope” by artist Ben Cowden of Applied Kinetic Arts. Turn the crank, and a combined mechanical and pneumatic power transfer system activates a choir of slide whistles to produce a sound that is simultaneously beautiful, creepy, and hilarious. Somehow. It’s rather harder to appreciate in a noisy exhibit hall, so if you were at the Faire and saw, but couldn’t hear, be double-dog-sure to check the vid.
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.
