Last month, I attended the Sally Ride Science Festival with my daughter at Rice University here in Houston. During a break in one of the sessions, I stumbled across an amazingly colorful and beautiful exhibit in the Rice Gallery. I only had a few minutes to explore it, but I was completely smitten with the […]
Traveling with Entrepreneur Magazine in 2011 we’ve interviewed some of the brightest innovators all across the U.S.A. We decided to bring them all together in this short film.
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Starting off with a spacetime acceleration toward a goodness infinity, we’re launching a countdown to the Make: Gift Singularity. Between now and Christmas we’ll be presenting gift project ideas that you can build given the time available. So, projects that take longer will be posted first, giving you enough time to make them and gift them to your intended, followed by increasingly easier/quicker projects.
Sculptor, kinetic artist, and longtime MAKE pal Alan Rorie is back with this beautiful “pressure door” built for a “Nautilus” art car project commissioned from San Francisco art collective Five Ton Crane. The door locks and unlocks via RFID, and the huge, four-foot diameter mechanical iris in its center is motorized. Rorie, who is a specialist in iris apertures, also built four smaller irising windows for the car’s body.
Last month, we had our first Open Make event, opening the doors of MAKE HQ in Sebastopol California and letting people check out Make: Labs and the new Project Make classroom. We had such a great turnout that we’ve decided to make this a reoccurring event.
Everyone needs a bit of sparkly bling for the holidays. Sometimes it can get pricey to get something you like, but with the Holiday Ring you can make something festive and fun for a fraction of the cost.
