Admittedly the sign is no longer “floating,” but I modified last week’s Weekend Project, the Floating Glow Display, using an empty CD jewel case, and these are the results. I wanted to be able to swap out the “sign” element of the Floating Glow Display, so the flip-lid of the jewel case allows me to do this (CD covers and inserts are an industry standard 12cm x 12cm).
Bethany Nixon, of Reware Vintage, let Maker Faire Detroit guests pick out a favorite trading card to make their own tiny notebook at her booth. Using a book binder that you might have seen in your elementary school, Beth is able to be a mobile maker no matter the event. After guests selected their card, […]
In April, 2009, Time Warner Cable, amid mounting concerns about flagging US competency in core technical areas, announced that it would be giving away $100 million to educational programs working in core science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines—the so-called STEM fields. Their Connect a Million Minds initiative, which is scheduled to run until 2013, has already collected almost 400,000 of its stated million-pledge goal.
Our amazing Maker Faire team has been hard at work on the upcoming World Maker Faire (NYC, Sept. 17 & 18, 2011) and they just sent me this memo with details on how to become part of the World Maker Faire Street Team. Please help us spread the good word in and around the New York boroughs and earning some Faire tickets in the process! Sound like fun?
Chris at PyroElectro created a tutorial on building your own animatronic eyes. One of the holy grails in animatronics is a realistic robotic eye because eyes are one of the hardest facial features to duplicate with realistic quality. While I have no intention of building the perfect animatronic eye in this tutorial, the low cost […]
By Shawn Bowman The folks in my family are big fans of the ridiculous, with bad jokes and slapstick gags at the top of our fun list. Our favorite kind of summer party involves delicious food, lots of friends and the definitive gesture in slapstick humor; a good old fashioned pie fight. (We don’t use […]
If you have some bored kids around your house, try this little project: pull a cereal box from your recycle bin, dig up some yarn scraps, and weave some pretty sun ornaments. Michele Pacey shares her how-to over at Michele Made Me. I could see these being cool holiday decorations or even gift tags. Maybe […]
