Video Snapshots from the Faire
For this weekend’s Maker Faire Detroit, one of our video producers, Nat Wilson-Heckathorn, is there shooting some of the salient sights and sounds. Here are a few videos posted this morning on our YouTube Channel.
Month: July 2011
Meet Your Crafters: Maker Faire 2011
Us kids here at Handmade Detroit are very much looking forward to seeing this year’s class of Maker Faire Detroit vendors this weekend! We’ve put up a series of previews over on the Handmade Detroit blog – check out each installment to learn a little more about each crafter. Vendor Preview 1 Vendor Preview 2 […]
The Latest in Hobby Robotics 15
Multicopters is an exciting new area of hobby robotics. They are also sometimes known as UAV’s, and essentially they are “flying hobby robots.” They are made with a center that holds micro controllers, sensors, receivers, transmitters, power and payload. Pointing out from the center are a number of pins holding motors and propellers. This is […]
The Dala Horse Craft-Along
Image by Hanna Andersson Here’s a fun story of crafters coming together over a common love. It began when Carina Envoldsen-Harris, Kathryn Sterrenberg, Hanna Andersson and Pam Harris all realized they shared a certain obsession with Dala horses. Image by Carina Envoldsen-Harris From Carina’s Blog: “I love that Swedish icon, the Dala Horse so much […]
Lego Models With Real Fire, Water Effects
Aaron Amatnieks, aka Flickr user akama1_lego, built a Lego dragon that breathes real fire! A tricky proposition when your medium is a polystyrene copolymer that melts at a temperature below the boiling point of water. A butane lighter has been fully incorporated into the structure, including a mechanical start-lever disguised as a rocky crag on the back side of the mountain.
Tooth Fairy Pouch
When I was a little kid, I would get unreasonably excited when I knew that the Tooth Fairy was coming. The rush of losing a tooth—probably in school, where I’d get to show it off all day—coupled with the possibility of seeing an actual fairy was almost too much. I think that this adorable Tooth […]
The Aeromodeller, an Autonomous Airship
The Aeromodeller II project is a design for a zero-emission, autonomous, nomad hydrogen-based airship that will never land. The ship regenerates its fuel, creating hydrogen from wind power and the rain on its skin. When it depletes its energy reserves, the ship needs to drop anchor and rest, in order to replenish its energy in […]
