Maker Faire is the ideal place for creative collaboration. A huge advantage of sharing what you make in a public space is the potential for finding like-minded folks who can collaborate and contribute to your project. You can feel it in the air at the Faire and it’s super exciting. This year’s Maker Faire Bay […]
Then again, if Calla lilies replaced each new brick on the planet, it would reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by at least 800 million tons a year. But we’d also be living in a world without useful new bricks to build stuff with. It is probably reasonable to expect that Dosier’s “Bacteria Bricks” will fare better as a construction material than Calla lilies, but whether they are truly comparable to conventional masonry in mechanical properties, durability, and weather resistance still remains to be proved. Also, her bricks take weeks to harden, compared to traditionally-fired bricks which can be manufactured in two days.
We announced the winners of the MAKE/MakerBot giveaway last week, and Bre has already printed out the top two designs! Here’s the MakerBot Transformer, open and closed, followed by the stereoscopic viewer. MakerBot will also be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend. From MAKE magazine: MAKE Volume 21 is the Desktop Manufacturing issue, with […]
With the nautical trend on high gear this season, I love this nautical-inspired shirt refashion using a simple $5.50 navy tank top as the base.
Michael Wood of TinyMeat.com is getting ready for Maker Faire, and shares his thoughts on craft shows, fairs, and Maker Faire specifically in this charming video made by Brian Brewer. Can’t wait for this weekend! [via Make: Online] Tinymeat was forged out of vinyl, snark, and a dissatisfaction with the corporate lifestyle, first in the […]
Antiques Roadshow is one of my and my husband’s favorite shows. We always look forward to Monday nights and seeing what’s new on the Roadshow. He always gets excited when there is a musical instrument of some sort (particularly violins and guitars) and I always love seeing any kind of craft-related antique (particularly needlework). Last […]
The City Reliquary in Brooklyn, NY, is throwing a bicycle block party with the Bicycle Fetish Day in Williamsburg: IT’S A BLOCK PARTY FOR YOUR BICYCLE! The Sixth Annual Bicycle Fetish Day takes place on Havemeyer Street between Grand & Hope Sts. “Best of…” Bicycle Contests, “Goldsprints” Stationary Races, Alley Cat Race, Advocacy Groups, Info […]
