How-To: Day of the Dead Sugar Skull Jewelry
Make your own colorful shrink plastic sugar skull jewelry for Dia de los Muertos!
Month: September 2013
The Greatest Show (and Tell) in Nashville
Last Saturday was the first ever Mini Maker Faire for Nashville, TN and by all accounts it was very successful.
Building a Low-Cost Nanoscope with Lego and Makeblock
Students at a workshop built a sub-$500 atomic force microcope out of Lego, Makeblock, 3D-printed parts, and Arduinos.
How-To: Chilled Monkey Brain Cake
If you grew up in the 80s, then you probably had the image of chilled monkey brains seared into your own brain by Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom. Well, now you can recreate your childhood horror with this spectacular Chilled Monkey Brain Cake tutorial.
Emma Willard’s Mini Maker Faire Starting Something Big
Emma Willard School in Troy, NY is staging a Mini Maker Faire, the first of four events celebrating the school’s 200th anniversary.
MinnowBoard Raises the Bar on Embedded Computing
Minnowboard is a new Open Source microcontroller board that is going after the Raspberry Pi market not by emulating the popular RasPi, but by blowing it out of the water with a four-inch $200 mini PC running ร ngstrรถm Linux on an Intel Atom CPU.
PourSteady Coffebot Creates a Buzz at Maker Faire
Makers follow passion pursuits. Coffee lovers chase the perfect cup. Between the two there’s not much difference when you hear the story ofย Mark Sibenac and Stuart Heys who, in their pursuit of great coffee, applied their engineering skills to build a coffee-making robot. And a great cup of coffee it makes!
