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

More electrifying Maker’s Notebooks

01/20/2009

Steve Davee, whose Maker’s Notebook hacks we’ve covered before, sent us a progress video. Here, he shows the LED binary...

Lexington, KY hacker space meeting this Thursday

01/20/2009

Todd Wiley writes to us: We’re starting up a co-op hacker space in Lexington, KY. Were going to have a...

Impressive retro-tech project site

01/20/2009

ConsciousFlesh useless projects is a site for (mainly) retro-tech projects such as nixie tube clocks, Tesla coils, Jacob’s ladders, tabletop...

Compartmentalizing your purse

01/19/2009

Jake von Slatt carries a purse — and he’s man enough to call it that. He’s also geek-maker enough to...

Go-Robo software for WowWee Robots

01/19/2009

Q4 Technologies, Ltd is a UK company that makes a line of software to control the WowWee toy/hobby robots. Anyone...

Like a steel locomotive…

01/19/2009

Last fall, the Great Central Railway in Leicestershire, England saw the roll out of The Tornado, the first steam-powered train...

The beauty of poo glass

01/18/2009

Afrigadget had a piece about this art colony near Nairobi National Park, called Kitengela Glass. They use local artisans (and...

The hand-crafted buzz-making of the Coraline boxes

01/16/2009

As you may already noticed, promotional efforts are currently afoot for the forthcoming film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s horror-fairytale Coraline....