How-To: Gold Stripe Stone Ring
Make yourself some seriously big DIY bling with this gold stripe stone ring tutorial from Lauren at The Perfect Pear!
Month: September 2012
Maker Faire New York: Successful Build for a Young Maker
It was great to see Audrey Armstrong, age 9, successfully complete her first solderless breadboard project at our breadboarding workshop. She built a 555 timer-controlled blinking LED circuit with a photo resistor to control the rate of the blinking. I was impressed. Great job, Audrey!
Maker Faire New York: Giant Mechanical Thumb Wars
The classic game of thumb war meets rock-em-sock-em-robots—if the robots in question are 30 feet tall and have hands the size of engine blocks. Thumby Wars, as it’s known, was the “Team’s Choice Selection” winner in this year’s Red Bull Creation contest, and saw its first public appearance today at Maker Faire New York. The […]
Open ROV at Maker Faire
I ran into David Lang, co-founder of the OpenROV Project and MAKE contributor, at the OpenROV booth at Maker Faire. He and his cohorts build open source submersibles and they have a couple of the robots on hand to show off. They’re at Robot Row in Area C.
SketchChair: “Open Source Ikea”
Everybody likes Ikea for its cheap and relatively cool-looking furniture. The only problem is a trip to Ikea is a half-day commitment what with all the time spent parking and waiting in line. Diatom Studio’s SketchChair hopes to solve that problem. The start-up company was one of the exhibitors at Maker Faire New York and […]
Eben Upton/Raspberry Pi Accepting Makey Award
MAKE contributing editor Matt Richardson awards the 2012 Makey Award for Most Hackable Gadget to Raspberry Pi. Accepting was Ebon Upton, creator of the Pi, the wildly popular new Linux-based computer system on a chip. We have Raspberry Pi boards and starter kits in the Maker Shed here at the Faire, if you want to stop […]
Maker Faire New York: Lumiphonic Creature Choir
Come see the Lumiphonic Creature Choir at World Maker Faire inside the Great Hall. The Choir will be performing at these times and this project is not to be missed. Part music performance, part projection, the faces that appear on the end of tentacles talk & sing and complete the performance. Spectacular and simultaneously surreal, […]
