Einstein’s Workshop, based in Massachusetts, has had enormous success teaching 3D design to children as young as 8 while getting them excited about math and programming. Their secret? They’ve developed an educational CAD program called BlocksCAD. The interface is easy for developing minds to grasp, with interlocking blocks and sliders, simple shapes, and quick visual […]
Herb Deutsch brought the most famous of the early synthesizers, the Minimoog, to World Maker Faire.
Rebecca and Cameron Stern of Stern Design Works create jewelry, sculptures, and toys through a mix of traditional metalsmithing, 3D printing, hand painting, mixed mediums, and plant derived epoxy resin.
Need some crafty inspiration? Here are some of the cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week!
This is the story of a group of college students who moved to the Mojave Desert, bought a house, painted it white, and turned it into a make-shift lab. Then they went out to launch rockets.
Mo Volans from FiveNinjas shares Slice at World Maker Faire New York 2014. It’s a set-top media player that’s based on the brand new Raspberry Pi Compute Module. They’re in the process of crowdfunding the project, and have met their funding goal. Since it’s based on the Raspberry Pi hardware and XBMC software, the platform […]
Artist Peter Cole was back at World Maker Faire this year, but instead of showing off his curious sculptures, he’s exhibiting a different series of works made from found objects.
