I had the pleasure of setting up a rooftop hydroponic herb garden for my latest CRAFT Video. It’s the nerdiest way to garden. I hope you’ll check it out! In this week’s CRAFT Video, I show you how to set up a hydroponic herb garden on my rooftop in Brooklyn. Hydroponic gardening uses water more […]
Dr. Who fan, Tara Wheeler, runs Witty Little Knitter, a web site “dedicated to the knitting of the authentic Doctor Who scarf.” I knitted my first Doctor Who Scarf at the age of fourteen, when I first started watching Doctor Who. I figure, I’ve knitted at least forty of them over the years, maybe more. […]
Our own Matt Mets has a great project up where he makes homebrew camera flash triggers with xBee radios: A year and a half ago, I started dabbling with using off-camera flash units, in order to exact better control over the lighting in my photographs. Of course, to do this, I had to invest in […]
Submit your project! John Baichtal @ Make: Online alerts us to this cool Maker Faire opportunity: Noisebridge is proud to present Anti/Surveillance Fashion Show at the upcoming Maker Faire in San Mateo. Anti/Surveillance is a runway show exploring the uses of wearables for surveillance, and for hiding from surveillance. We are currently accepting submissions for […]
MAKE subscriber Rich Gilbank of Toronto, ON wrote in to share this project: Anthros is a project I began working on as my fourth-year university thesis project for New Media at Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada). It uses open source tech (OpenFrameworks, Arduino) to make large tentacle-like nodes follow a user through a space. It was […]
Stitch London has collaborated with London’s Science Museum to create a Stitch Yourself component for the museum’s Who Am I? exhibit, opening in June 2010. You are invited to contribute a tiny Stitched Self and take part in scientific stitching history. The idea is that you work your stitching science on your blank body to […]
Lubbock, Texas artist Dustin Wallace, whose larger one-off/limited edition transforming robot sculptures I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, also makes these wicked little “robotagami” dudes that are CNC-cut from sheet metal (stainless steel or copper), ship flat, and get slotted together and folded up to make a dimensional figure by the buyer.
