How-To: Keep a Pen with Your Sketchbook
Have you ever pulled out your sketchbook, only to spend several frustrating minutes digging around your pockets and bag for a pen?
Month: September 2013
LittleBits Snaps Together a no-Solder Electronics Kit
littleBits teaches electronics by making the connections irrelevant — no tangles of jumpers, wiring diagrams, or globs of solder. Even the programming is done for you, reducing the complexity of building circuits to, basically, snapping the parts together with the help of magnetic couplings.
If you Don’t Document it, it Doesn’t Exist
There are so many reasons to document your project that after considering all of them it seems silly not to. Here are some reasons to make it a habit.
Engineering and Science Education for Everyone
Chelsey RoeBuck and Clayton Dahlman of ELiTE are using Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and other platforms to pilot STEM education programs, packaged in backpacks, and delivered to resource limited communities around the world.
Tony Feher at the DeCordova Museum
It’s the final week of a show of the artwork of Tony Feher at the DeCordova Museum, one of our favorite artists who inventively use common materials others might consider “trash.” It closes this Sunday, Sept. 15.
Meet Mildred, the Trompe L’oeil Sea Monster
Brooklyn, N.Y.-based artist Shana Siegel has been creating murals and scenic paintings for theater, television, and exhibitions since 2005. Her latest piece, named Mildred, is a departure (literally), as it’s composed of four standalone plywood pieces that together create a fantastic optical illusion.
Make or Break: A Maker’s how-to Guide to World Maker Faire
Sean Montgomery, Queens-based maker and founder of Sensorstar Labs gives his “cheat sheet” for attending the upcoming 4th annual World Maker Faire in NYC. From planning ahead to connecting with others at the event to sampling food options along the subway that runs to the New York Hall of Science, here’s a maker’s how-to.
