The Business of the Brain- lecture at MIT/Stanford Venture Lab
Interested in learning about the latest developments in brain-computer interfacing?
Year: 2010
The road to Maker Faire: Michael Wood
This year, in the lead-up to and during the Faire, we wanted to gather together a little ad hoc community of makers who are presenting at the event and ask them to do some posts for us. We want you to be able to look over their shoulders to get a sense of what’s going […]
Yo Dawg, I heard you like chairs
So designer Eric Ku made this chair out of the letters in the word chair, so you can sit while you spell.
Volunteer at Maker Faire
I worked as a volunteer during the very first Maker Faire Bay Area in 2006, and I haven’t missed one since! It was exhilarating, and exhausting all at the same time. In between working my shifts at the Maker Check-In, I met Suzy Pakhchyan, of Fashioning Technology, and stitched my very first soft circuit. Since […]
Flashback: Anatomy of a Sewing Machine
We’re about halfway through our Sew & Sew theme this month, and I’m reminded of a great little resource we published back in April 2007 in CRAFT Volume 03: “Anatomy of a Sewing Machine” by Christine Haynes and Kent Bell. This handy little feature showcased the illustration above, done by Kent, and the corresponding descriptions […]
Kid Art: Endangered species contest
Each year since 2006, thousands of children across the United States submit artwork representing a plethora of endangered plants and wildlife living on the brink in our fair country. The submissions are amazing, the cause is attention-worthy, and the contest culminates in national Endangered Species Day, which this year happens to be today, May 21. […]
How-To: Sew a Teddy Bear
Joy, aka “HowJoyful,” shares a great plush bear tutorial on Instructables, suited excellently for starting out in plush-making in three dimensions!