It’s Saturday morning in Tokyo. Shortly, I’ll be giving the keynote address at the first Maker Conference at Miraikan. The conference is organized by O’Reilly Japan and jp.makezine.com. MAKE’s first Japanese edition in Tokyo in 2006, edited by Hideo Tamura. The first Maker Meeting, a small Maker Faire was held in 2008. It attraced 300 […]
Now THIS is an unusual container for plants! Kerry Michaels, for About.com’s Container Gardening section, shows you step by step how to create this unique planter.
This is such a great weekend project for those who love to host! Design Sponge shows us how to make-over an old kitchen cart into a movable bar so you are always ready to host a party on a whim. A great way to up-cycle and keep the libations a flowin’!
[ichc-flickr-slide width=”580″ height=”412″ username=”makerbot” set_id=”72157630000129466″ player_r=”109615″] NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – Scanning Art for the World to Download & Make… Now, as if the promise of democratizing goods, revolutionizing industries and opening up a whole new era of “object” piracy wasn’t enough, the MakerBot team is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, scanning […]
Niki Lowry of The Daily Muse has a great idea for bringing a salad lunch to work — bring it in a Mason jar! On top of looking beautiful and inspiring everyone that opens the office fridge to want salad too, the vertical orientation serves a purpose. By layering from heaviest (dressing) to lightest (lettuce), […]
At issue is free public access to scientific information gathered using tax dollars. Which, in the US, is about a third of it. If you’ve ever been hot on the trail of a technical lead and run up against a robot demanding $40 to download one four-page, thirty-year-old journal article, you know what I’m talking about.
Using a Propeller Quickstart, some basic electronic components, and eight bananas, Jeff Ledger created a gnarly sounding touch capacitive synth.
