Anne Filson and Gary Rohrbacher lead AtFAB, a resource for furniture designed to be cut on a CNC. The Community Commons designs may be downloaded from AtFAB’s site and adjusted to fit the needs of the maker. For instance, a chair could be stretched out to make a love seat. Then you CNC the parts […]
Literally hundreds and hundreds of kids are going home with their first homemade piñata care of the project WHACK!!! An assortment of materials and decorative elements are available for gluing onto piñatas. Look for the silver M-bot in the Zone D activity area, also known as Trash to Treasure Row, to learn the art and […]
Jimmy DiResta improvising wooden animals on request. Here, Terrance gets a giraffe.
Joe, from Renga Arts in Sebastopol, CA, delights the crowd, especially young makers, in the Make: Workshop.
This blinking T-shirt senses your heart beat and displays it on a heart-shaped LED array. The creators, Heart-felt Robot, said the T-shirt is dry-cleanable but not washable. It runs on three AAA batteries.
I stopped by Robert Hermes’ Zombie Detector Photo Booth and learned a bit of bad news. It must have happened when the guy sitting next to me on the flight to New York sunk his jaws in my forearm. At the time, I just thought he was just hungry because the plane wasn’t serving lunch.
Yesterday was a whirlwind of activity as the gates opened on World Maker Faire 2012 and we prayed that the rain would be held at bay and NYC train troubles wouldn’t prevent fairgoers from getting to the NY Hall of Science. Neither of these could keep tens of thousands of people from enjoying a day of makers showing off their wares and discussing what they do and why
