This week’s collection of cool photos from the MAKE Flickr pool leads off with dreamexplorer’s “Cruisin'”, from Bay Area Maker Faire 2011. Other highlights include a sweet vintage vacuum tube in a custom laser-cut case and a beautiful forest landscape taken with a pinhole camera,
Arc Attack! is back with their unique blend of high voltage and melodic ozone creation. It appears that there are a couple of kids in the faraday cage. How’s that for a memorable childhood experience?
Lucky for those of us left behind, the fine folks at Maker Faire have been tagging their pictures and adding them to the MAKE Flickr pool. I see steam, lights, robots, festive Faire goers and more. If you aren’t able to make it to San Mateo this weekend, you can live vicariously through our fellow makers on site.
We’re excited to be closing in on the final judging and award ceremony for element14’s Great Global Hackerspace Challenge. The finals and ceremony will take place on the Innovation Stage at Maker Faire (5pm). The esteemed judges on the panel are our favorite roller-girl uber-geek goddess Jeri Ellsworth, the Johnny Appleseed of hackerspaces, Mitch Altman, […]
We can’t believe it’s already lunchtime here at day two of Maker Faire Bay Area. If you’re curious to know what’s going on here at the Craft area, here’s the latest and greatest. Make sure to stop by now until 2 p.m. to make a Craft or Make pinwheel and listen to one of these […]
Makers are already lining up for day two of Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. If it was anything like yesterday, it should really be something to bleat about. Here are the salient details for those who are coming to the Faire or for those just curious: Maker Faire website — Lots of up to date […]
Watching the stream from the MAKE and CRAFT demo stages, I was totally impressed by Owen Grace and the work he’s done with Electronic Arts converting game controller guitars into playable instruments. In a Maker Faire success story, Owen told of how he made his game controllers into instruments as a personal project, got some friends together to form a band, and then caught the ear of the executives at Electronic Arts. They liked his maker project so much that they offered him a job, where now he continues his project of passion as his profession. Owen and his band are featured on the cover of Make, Volume 15.
