One of my favorite projects of the Faire — and there are tons of insane ones! — is Miguel Valenzuela’s Lego pancake CNC that can output pancake batter in any shape you’d like, including the shape of water molecules as well as the obligatory (if you have kids) Mickey Mouse format. Be sure to check […]
If you’re hanging out in the grassy knoll between the Diet Coke and Mentos Stage and the Life-Size Mousetrap (perhaps staking out a good spot for the next show?) you might see or hear some little flying machines buzzing over head. Whether it’s a quad copter from AeroQuad or a soaring foam plane from Brooklyn […]
Handmade Arcade will take place on Saturday, Dec. 8, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in downtown Pittsburgh, Penn. Vendor applications are being accepted until Sunday, Oct. 7 – click here to apply. If you have any questions, please contact info [at] handmadearcade [dot] com.
Jason Kridner from BeagleBoard.org and Texas Instruments is currently wandering around World Maker Faire New York with a BeagleBone-based mustache machine.
Here’s 15-year-old Chip Mahoney with his nifty pinhole Polaroid camera. It takes about 20 seconds to make an exposure. He showed me a photo he took earlier in the day and the people are wispy ghost trails. Very beautiful.
I ran into Phil Torrone and Ladyada here at Maker Faire New York and they gave me an advance copy of their coloring book, E is for Electronics, an A-to-Z intro to electronics, from Andre-Marie Ampere to Clarence Zener (namesake of the Zener diode). The delightful illustrations are by Robert Ullman. The book has been […]
The coolest projects at Maker Faire combine elements from multiple disciplines. Brooklyn’s Pizza Moto does just that. The mobile wood-fired pizza oven is one of the fair’s food vendors, but it’s an example of DIY craftsmanship, too. Designer/pizzaiolo Dave Sclarow built the oven on top of a Korean-war era military trailer. He worked with a […]
