MAKE friend and founder of iFixit Kyle Wiens is traveling with a crew through the slums of Kibera, Cairo’s infamous Garbage City, and Cairo’s electronics markets revealing how and why fixers do what they do. They’re working on a documentary film about repair titled Fixers. There are superheroes in our midst, and they’re not wearing […]
This weekend, makers in Phoenix, AZ, and Oakland, CA, will be diving into their exciting Maker Faires! Featuring both established and emerging local “makers,” the East Bay Mini Maker Faire is a family-friendly celebration coming to Oakland for its second year on Sunday, October 16, 2011. It will feature rockets and robots, DIY science and […]
The Oakland A’s The Philadelphia Flyers Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Foogos is a website with images of familiar logos, crafted out of food. This makes me want to make awesome art and sculptures with my dinner.
This is amazing. Designer Larry Quach helped create a Super Mario Brothers-themed wedding earlier this month for his friends. From wedding invitations to seating charts, everything is as Mario as can be. You might also remember Larry from this Conan O’Brien appearance.
Kelly Beall of Design Crush just announced her 2012 Calendar Swap. After seeing a few examples of the calendars that we’re swapped last year, I’m definitely in. Check out her post to read all the sign-up details. Via Felt and Wire
When I started this Zero to Maker journey, I was inspired by the idea that I could become a self-made industrial designer – that I could bypass an expensive education by learning only what I really needed to get started. Now that I’ve started down the road, I’ve realized that it’s a very long road. The good news is that I remain committed to my initial belief that there’s a less expensive (and faster) way to learn: through a strategic blend of internet resources, access to the right tools, and involvement in a community of like-minded makers. Most important for me, however, has been the commitment to trying to figure out and examine more of what I don’t know.
Make: Live episode 18 featured makers in MAKE v28, the toys & games issue! Onyx Ashanti performs and talks Xbees and sensors, and Michael Colombo explains his reflective improvement to flashlight tag. David Harris made Charlie’s bear (above), originally designed for his nephew with cerebral palsy. It’s a location aware plush toy with an embedded RFID reader, speaker, Arduino and wave shield to play sounds when it interacts with objects.
