Transforming a School Library Into a Makerspace
Students at Grand Center Arts Academy (GCAA), a public charter school in St. Louis, have arrived to find a portion of their library transformed into a makerspace.
Year: 2013
How-To: Make a Paper Airplane fly Forever
Take your paper airplane skills up a notch with this incredible trick to make your airplane fly forever using the heat of an electric stove!
How-To: Shakeable Confetti Wrapping Paper
Make your own colorful shakeable confetti wrapping paper!
Maker Faire Loves Robots
Maker Faire loves robots. Don’t you? Here are just a fraction of the robotic exhibits, presenters and performers at World Maker Faire 2013. Robots for kids! Aerial Drones, Robotic Art, Humanoid Robots, and more.
3D-Body Scanning With Joey Hudy
Joey Hudy returns to Maker Faire to present his senior project at ASU-HYSA: a full-body 3D scanner. It works by rotating a person on a small wooden platform while a stepper motor raises and lowers a PrimeSense kinect clone so it can scan your entire body using Skanect software. It generates a array of dots and then creates the mesh from the dots.
How-To: Felt Knitting Needle Case
Keep your DPNs organized while you’re on the go with this simple felt knitting needle case tutorial!
Arduino + Modules = FEZ Medusa
There’s no denying the fact that everyone loves the ever popular Arduino. However, the “shield” approach used by Arduino has its limitations and those of us that are also fans of the Gadgeteer prototyping platform know that there’s a better solution – modules. Finally, it looks like there will be a module-based Arduino derivative that will […]
