Charming Maker Faire Bay Area Video
I love this silent Maker Faire video with a very twinkly, ethereal soundtrack. Really captures some of the wonder of the event.
Month: May 2012
NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – Customer Service Holograms At Airports
NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – Customer Service Holograms At Airports… NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — She smiles, answers questions and can guide you to the nearest restroom or to your connecting flight. But don’t try to shake her hand. That’s because “she” is an avatar, the latest high-tech venture at the three major airports in the […]
Engineer Guy vs. The Smartphone Accelerometer
Here, with great fanfare, is the second installment of Engineer Guy Series #4: theMEMSaccelerometer. With typical flair, Bill and his production team take us from the basic concept of an accelerometer (using the familiar ball-on-a-spring model), through the analogous silicon device that lets your smartphone tell up from down, all the way to the anisotropic etching techniques used to It’s wonders all the way down, with Bill, as usual.
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw…
Happy Memorial Day!
For U.S. residents, today is a day to remember those men and women who have died during service to our country. To those people and their families, we say Thank You. This beautiful patriotic rose cake from i am baker is a lovely way to bring red white and blue in to your Memorial Day […]
Dangerous Prototypes at Maker Faire Bay Area
Our pals at Dangerous Prototypes put together these wonderful videos about Maker Faire Bay Area 2012. The first gives you a maker’s POV of being at the Faire, setting up, what to bring, etc. The second video offers a rundown of 13 projects that Ian of DP found at the Faire.
Small Scrap Projects
Larissa of mmmcrafts offers this great pattern for a bed for small critters in her Etsy shop. Very sweet! She references this pattern is great for scraps – are you working on any projects this weekend using materials you already have on hand? Happy Memorial Day! Via Oh Sweet Babies
