Intel has many charitable giving programs, but their “Intel Involved” Matching Grant Program (which awards employees’ volunteer hours at eligible organizations with matching funds) has had a special impact in the hackerspace community.
Today Parallax came out to MAKE HQ and let us test drive a number of their cool toys. They set up their quadcopters, y-copters, and hexcopters, hooked their ELEV-8 to an Intova camera, and used the video to fly with a first-person perspective. We pulled the feed into a streaming video, and had a great […]
The 3D printing revolution is well upon us, as evidenced by the growing number of 3D-printing-related projects that will be on display at this year’s Maker Faire New York, taking place September 29 and 30 at the New York Hall of Science in Queens. Maker Sean Charlesworth recently earned his master’s in Digital Imaging and […]
Blogger Salainen came up with a memorable way to propose to her boyfriend, Mario-style!
Erin, of Design for Mankind, gave a fairly standard folding chair a makeover with a can of spray paint and some favorite fabric. What do you think of the new look? Via Katie Pedersen
I love this tutorial for how to scribble on fabric! I’ve never attempted anything this fancy with my sewing machine, but the gorgeous step-by-step shots are pretty inspiring. This would be so fun on a blue-and-white striped fabric, as if it were a lined notebook.
Oakland’s AMT hackerspace spent last Sunday teaching kids about biospheres! Yesterday marked the inaugural Open Lab for our new adventure: Hacker Scouts. We had an amazing turnout with about 40 enthusiastic kids and their supportive parents! Our featured project was Biospheres, which half the kids decided to work on, while the other half chose activities […]
