Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. His free weekly-ish maker tips newsletter can be found at garstipsandtools.com.

Latest from Gareth Branwyn

Electrons on Parade

02/03/2009

I absolutely love this 1940s factory promo film from RCA , describing how they make metal-can octal base vacuum tubes....

DIY LED Valentine’s Day heart

02/03/2009

The folks at NerdKits, who gave us the DIY Marque LED Array Project, now built on that project with the...

Lost Knowledge: Manual Typewriters

02/03/2009

Typewriters are enjoying a comeback, as collectable antiques, and as a welcome relief from overwhelming digital distractions.

Interview with toy modder Dustin Cantrell

02/02/2009

ToyCyte, the toy culture collector’s site, has an interview with Dustin Cantrell. Dustin did the T.W.E.R.P. toy hack, which we...

Uses for plastic bottles

02/02/2009

This Instructable has a bunch of ideas for reusing plastic (PET) bottles. Some of them are obvious (a grain scoop...

Toolbox: Portable workbench

02/01/2009

My friend, and fellow Dorkbot DC and HacDC cohort, R. Mark Adams made this simple portable workbench out of plywood...

Besmoke – interactive fluid dynamics

01/30/2009

Eric Gradman has created this awesome interactive fluid dynamics program called Besmoke. It is iPhone accelerometer aware and responds to...

Introducing the Maker’skine

01/30/2009

I did a double-take when Collin sent me the link to this Flickr image of a Mini Maker’s Notebook. What...

Robot that reassembles itself after being kicked

01/29/2009

Amazing shape-shifter robotic system being developed at University of Pennsylvania that can locate its subsystem clusters and reassemble itself after...