The Goodie Monster Vending Machine
The Goodie Monster is a refurbed vending machine that serves tasty, healthy, local, organic, affordable, and lovingly-made snacks.
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This Saturday, Feb 18: Young Makers/Open MAKE at the Exploratorium
Come to the Exploratorium this weekend as the Tinkering Studio hosts the second of four Open MAKE Saturdays. Explore your own creativity with makers from around the Bay Area, who will share their art, ingenuity, and techniques for making.
Colorful Candy Buttons
Etsy sellers Jason and Andie have created these beautiful candy buttons that look too good too eat. But, on the other hand, if I sew them on to my sweater, I’d have a delicious snack at work in the afternoon…
How-To: Tetris Lightbox Decor
If you received a heart-shaped box of chocolates yesterday (or are planning to buy some for yourself on clearance this week – we won’t judge!) Jessica Charlton has a cool, geeky way to repurpose them over on Offbeat Bride. She shows how you can create lightbox decor with a Tetris motif that would fit in […]
Follow Up – A Culture of Ethics in Open Source Hardware?
Ian from Dangerous prototypes has posted up some thoughts on my article “The {Unspoken} Rules of Open Source Hardware”. His post “A culture of ethics in open source hardware?” has some really good things from the point of view of someone who makes a living designing, supporting and shipping open-source hardware. Check it out!
Text Tool: Hack This! (Review and Book Giveaway)
Our very own John Baichtal has written a wonderful guide to hackerspaces and 24 cool projects that their members have produced. You will find no better Virgil to guide you through the realm of DIWO (Do It With Others) than “nerdyjb.”
“The Machines That Made The Jet Age”
If you like giant machines—and who really doesn’t?—don’t miss Tim Heffernan’s wonderful new feature over at Boing Boing: The magnificent machine pictured above is a closed-die forging press, one of the biggest in the world. (For reference, check out the men standing at its foot, down there on the left.) It and nine other huge […]