Apply to vend your crafts, kits, and other wares at the BUST Magazine Craftacular at World Maker Faire NY 2011! Applications are being accepted through August 15th. Maker Faire is held at the New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows, Queens NY, and this year will be September 17th and 18th.
Sarah London points us to these awesome full-text novel posters from Spineless. Imagine a whole book on a single sheet. A bold art print on which, up close, you can read the full and complete text of your favourite classic work. There’s a sizable collection from historical books to classics and even romance.
I’m always on the lookout for interesting horizontal docking options. Enter the c/dock from Portland area maker James Aloysius. It’s a well designed hunk of walnut with either a brushed aluminum or black resin faceplate that allows you to charge and display your phone in the viewer friendly horizontal orientation.
To celebrate the publication of my new book, The Practical Pyromaniac, the Chicago Review Press (my publisher), is sponsoring a contest to see who can write the most creative Clerihew about fire, scientists, and similarly geeky subjects. For the budding poet, writer, or wise acre with a scientific bent, it’s a great opportunity for creativity!
Congrats to The Amp Hour on a year of podcasts. 52 weeks and 52 episodes of electronic goodness! Dave Jones from the EEVblog in Sydney Australia, and Chris Gammell in Cleveland Ohio USA discuss the world of electronics design in an hour long weekly show (The Amp HOUR, get it?), recorded โliveโ without editing or […]
I’ve been into tiny houses for years now (after all, I live in a bus). But when I saw Christian Schallert‘s remodeled Barcelona pigeon loft, my mouth hit the floor. Driven by practicality, but without compromising on aesthetics, these 258 square feet have all the creature comforts of a larger home … folded neatly away […]
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