Quilts Carved from Wood
Artist Fraser Smith has produced several unbelievable sculptures of quilts by carving them from wood and painting them with silk dyes. [via Buzzfeed]
Month: August 2012
Maker Camp: CERN and the Large Hadron Collider
Week 5, Field Trip Friday at Maker Camp. We talk to the team at CERN, the home of the world’s biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider.
Maker Camp, sponsored by MAKE magazine, was a virtual summer camp for teens, with a focus on creating, building, and discovering.From July 16th through August 24th, 2012, 30 awesome projects were made in 30 days, on Google+. Maker Camp is free and open to all.
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You can learn more about makers who are creating their own DIY high-tech scientific tools in the current issue of MAKE Magazine. To get discounted a copy, visit MakerShed.com and use code CAMPERV31. If you’d like a discounted subscription starting with our current issue, use code CAMPERSUB. And please tune in tomorrow, 8/17 at 10am PST for a hangout with Ben Krasnow, who built his own Scanning Electron Microscope.๏ปฟ
Maker Camp: Switch Vehicles
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Maker Camp: Ben Krasnow
A follow up hangout to our field trip to CERN. Ben Krasnow built his own DIY Electron Scanning Microscope.
Maker Camp: Week Six Preview
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How-To: Use Staples as Breadboard Jumpers
Recently, we’ve been brainstorming ideas for a breadboarding workshop to put on at Maker Faire and other events. Hoping to save participants the tedium of cutting and stripping their own jumper wires (and the cost of providing readymade jumpers) we hit on the idea of using staples. I first read about this hack on Instructables, awhile back, and was excited to find a chance to put it to use. Just one problem: it doesn’t work.
Raspberry Pi Embedded in DSLR Camera
Limerick area photographer and camera hacker, Dave Hunt, has managed to squeeze a Raspberry Pi SBC inside a detachable battery grip for his Canon 5D Mark II DSLR camera.
