With the flowers finally beginning to bloom here in the Pacific Northwest, I’m loving these cheery fabric-covered clay pots by Christine Chitnis. Couldn’t you see these as a pretty packaging for a gift of assorted bulbs? (Via Tip Junkie)
By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics By pleating a square sheet of paper with a pattern of concentric squares, one can fold a saddle shape that mathematicians call a hyperbolic paraboloid, sometimes nicknamed a hypar. Erik Demaine led a workshop at a recent Museum of Mathematics event where he showed how multiple hypars […]
Yesterday in Homegrown Village at Maker Faire, our video crew found themselves with a unique gear crisis. During an interview, a goat ate the antenna off the wireless microphone. OM NOM! Get ready for some awesome video maker profiles from Maker Faire coming soon. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video […]
This is a beautiful idea for a rather hidden waste problem. From London designer Lucy Norman: “More books are printed every year, read and discarded. Even though many are taken to charity shops, they mostly go unsold and the charities have to pay for the books to be sent to landfill. For example 10,000 books […]
Our Galvanic Skin Response Kit (aka Truth Meter Kit) from the Maker Shed has everything you need to build the Truth Meter circuit featured in Make Volume 26. See what happens when someone asks you questions or when you laugh or get surprised!
Lurwah of Hackerspace Arnheim converted his blender into a mini POV. It looks extra crispy from the top!
Alas, we just closed the gates on Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. It was, by all accounts (that I’ve heard) an inspired success. Happy, huge but well-mannered crowds, hundred of amazing makers, and an embarrassment of things to see, make, test, ride, play with, and eat. But at the end of each Faire, we always […]
