DIY Washi Tape Clutch
This project takes the cake for best fashion use of office supplies!
Month: January 2013
Made On Earth — Gods of Thunder
Innovative engineering is often an iterative process of refinement and testing. For Nelson Pass, this means constructing ever-huger sound systems, and then field-testing them by throwing ever-louder parties.
Early Bird Maker Faire Bay Area Tickets
Is it too soon to start early birding tickets to the Greatest Show (and Tell) On Earth, Maker Faire Bay Area? Definitely not. Between now and March 14th you can buy discounted Maker Faire tickets–but prices go up March 15th.
Engadget’s Talent Show for Hardware Makers
Got a great invention the world needs to get their hands on? Engadget is offering a hardware talent show of sorts called Insert Coin to help choose tech’s next great gadget. The winner will be chosen by a panel of judges at Expand in San Francisco March 17 and will walk with a $20,000 cash prize and a guaranteed Engadget review. Submissions will be accepted up until Feb. 8 so get busy.
3D Printed Mendocino Motor
I got to play around with Chris Connors’ Mendocino Motor at Maker Faire New York last year. It consists of magnetically levitating pencils turned into motors with magnets, magnet wire, and 3D-printed joists. The Mendocino Motor floats in its own magnetic field and converts light into electricity and magnetism, which are then converted into the […]
Colorful Embroidered Photographs
These colorfully embroidered photographs are the whimsical work of artist Jose Ignacio Romussi Murphy.
What We Can Learn From Hackerspaces
Open source advocate Catarina Mota spoke at TEDxStockholm about the increasingly cool and important role hackerspaces play in world society. Check it out!
