Design firm Digital Kitchen threw a party with a photo booth. And the set props were super fun, with pointy mountaintops, fluffy clouds, and a jagged bolt of lightning. But this was no regular photo booth… they rigged up an animated GIF photo booth. They call it Protobooth! On their site they reveal the components […]
“Twin Creeks, a solar power startup that emerged from hiding today, has developed a way of creating photovoltaic cells that are half the price of today’s cheapest cells, and thus within reach of challenging the fossil fuel hegemony. The best bit: Twin Creeks’ photovoltaic cells are created using a hydrogen ion particle accelerator.”
Vi Hart pushes back on Pi and whole Pi Day thingy.
Here’s a video introduction to Making Things See, Greg Borenstein’s new Make: Books title about 3D vision projects you can build using Kinect, Arduino, Processing, and other readily available technologies. This detailed, hands-on guide provides the technical and conceptual information you need to build cool applications with Microsoft’s Kinect, the amazing motion-sensing device that enables […]
This weekend’s Open MAKE at the Exploratorium offers a day full of fun hands on activities and inspirational talks from makers of all sorts. Our good pal and needle felting guru, Moxie, will be hosting drop-in needle felting demos in the Tinkering Studio Thursday and Friday ahead of the main Open MAKE event on Saturday. […]
This Thursday, March 15th, at the Museum of Vancouver in Vancouver, BC, Vancouver makers are getting together to throw a big bash to celebrate the opening of our Call for Makers, and help raise funds for this year’s event. The evening will feature interactive demonstrations, musical performances, arts, crafts, there will be a silent auction, […]
Continuing our Natural Materials theme month coverage today with a pair interesting, entertaining, well-produced YouTube tutorials from a lifetime craftsman in bone. Check ’em out.
