Bazaar Bizarre Maker Faire Crafters: Papergoods
I can’t believe Maker Faire is tomorrow! Here’s our last installment of Bazaar Bizarre vendors.
Month: May 2011
Anouchka Potdevin’s Button-Coiffed Portraits
Bonkers About Buttons shares a beautiful series of portraits on canvas by French artist Anouchka Potdevin. They pieces depict models and singers, with black buttons arranged to represent their hair – very soft and ethereal, with the texture of the buttons adding an interesting contrast. See the series in slideshow form on the artist’s website.
Lego Pegasus Automaton
This work from Korean Kyoung-bae Na, aka edulyoung, would be impressive as a static Lego model. As a flapping-wings automaton, it is, I daresay, magnificent. Kyoung-bae Na has a BrickLink storefront as Studio Amida, but the Pegasus Automaton is not listed there as of this writing.
Make: Live is Tonight! Episode 09: Maker Faire Bay Area
Make: Live airs tonight! Don’t miss our Maker Faire episode where guests Super Awesome Sylvia, Jimmie Rogers, and Russell the electric giraffe join us live from the Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 preparty.
Meet the Teagueduino
If the Arduino wasn’t friendly enough, along comes the Teagueduino from the folks at Teague Labs. Breadboards too confusing? Code have you cross-eyed? Ready-to-go plug-in components and a realtime editor give beginners the training wheels they need to get experimenting right away, while minimizing the fear of breaking something along the way. [Thanks, Adam!] Teagueduino […]
Meet the Makers: Todd Williams
Todd Williams is jewelry maker with a fine hand, a sculpture maker with a wit, and a performer trickster. He might spend 200 or 300 hours perfecting one of his incredible Land Sharks but the real work comes when he brings them out to play. His sculptures are animations that interact with people at events like Burning Man and Coachella by chasing each other through the crowds. While the chassis of the sharks is a remote control monster truck, you can’t just drive a Land Shark, you have to become a Land Shark.
Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets (the Interview)
Tero Karvinen and Kimmo Karvinen are authors of the recently-published Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets, which teaches you how to build your own robots, turn your ideas into prototypes, control devices with a computer, and make your own cell phone applications. They’ll both be joining us at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 in the Maker […]
