Community-learning offering Skillshare lets folks teach just about anything their heart desires. When I saw this posting offering a “A Sock Monkey Madness” class, I was instantly sad Detroit is so far away from San Francisco. If you could teach a class, what would you offer? Photo via Zen Cupcake
Continue Reading
HP if you’re going to kill it, open source it – or at least consider giving it away, just like google is doing with Android. On a related note, there will be about 250,000 HP tablet flooding the market, below cost soon. It will be interesting to see what makers do with them.
Continue Reading
I want to buy, like, 100 of these interlocking motion-responsive LED modules from EMSL and cover an entire wall in my house with them. Unfortunately I can’t afford to do so at the moment, either in terms of money for that many kits or in terms of time to solder them together.
(Sigh.)
Oh well, maybe one of you can do it and post some nice video so I can live vicariously.
Continue Reading
This week’s article is a request, well – it’s more like an open letter for astrophysicist, science communicator and Director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson to consider speaking at Maker Faire New York (or just being our special guest) Sept. 17 & 18 – New York Hall of Science.
Continue ReadingThere’s nothing in this world that makes my cats happier than a good old fashioned cardboard box. So, taking a cue from them, I designed a cat tree that turns four regular cardboard boxes into a flashy two-story cat rocket.
Continue ReadingCheck out this nifty Google map that shows which RadioShack locations throughout New York City and beyond that are offer discounted World Maker Faire tickets. Discounted One Day Tickets will be available at various Radio Shack locations throughout New York. Save $5 per ticket, avoid lines onsite, and support your local community by visiting RadioShack locations up through the event.
Continue ReadingMegan Brain, who shapes paper into appealing sculptures, has just updated her website, which showcases her intricately cut and assembled work. The Los Angeles based paper sculptor created the closing titles for the animated movie Madagascar 2 as well as pieces for Coraline. The image above is a work that was commissioned by two of […]
Continue Reading
