Month: November 2011

News From The Future – Crowd Sourced T-Shirt Vending Machines

News From The Future – Crowd Sourced T-Shirt Vending Machines

A Threadless kiosk at a Dominick’s at 2550 N. Clybourn. Image Credit: Matt W. News From The Future – Crowd Sourced T-Shirt Vending Machines… …the automated kiosk is part of a pilot program Threadless entered with Coinstar, Inc. Many of us have used Coinstar to cash in large amounts of change at some point. The […]

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Catching Up with Open Source Ecology

Catching Up with Open Source Ecology

One of the many cool open source initiatives we’ve been keenly following here at MAKE is the Open Source Ecology project and their Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). They’ve been on our radar ever since they won our Green Project Contest at the beginning of the year.

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Crafty Events

Wow, there are a lot of craft fairs this weekend. Buy your holiday presents locally this year – keep your dollars, pounds, and rupees local! Coming Up This Weekend: Urban Craft Uprising Seattle, WA Dec. 3-4 Holiday Fair Portland, OR Dec. 3 Craftaluma – Holiday Ho Ho Ho Down Petaluma, CA Dec. 3 NoHo Dine […]

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Autonomous Ocean-Crossing Robots Launched

Autonomous Ocean-Crossing Robots Launched

Here’s a clip of Liquid Robotics founder and CTO Roger Hine talking, at the most recent Bay Area Maker Faire, about the innovative design of his company’s Wave Glider robot boat, which converts the up-and-down motion of waves at the surface into energy for propulsion. More technical details are available on Liquid Robotics’ site. On November 17, Liquid Robotics launched four…

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