Imagine grown men and women racing souped-up Power Wheels and similar ride-on children’s toy cars. We’re talking about the Power Racing Series (PPPRS), a hackerspace-centric competition that tests makers’ machining and electronics acumen while encouraging style and moxie.
Becky Stern never turns off. Her creativity is as boundless as her energy. She is constantly putting together tutorials, moderating comments, creating videos, teaching, and making incredible objects for her online shop. Everything that Becky does is accurate, measured, and legit- even her abstract art has a purpose and is well reasoned. She is determined […]
Staff Editor Arwen O’Reilly Griffith was recently a judge in the Core77 Design awards. Over on CRAFT, she writes: “The Core77 Design Award DIY/Hack/Mod category winners were just posted. I was one of the jurors, and loved getting to see all of the submissions; we had a hard time choosing the winner!”
Polish artist Monika Grzymala creates amazing art installations using tons of sticky tape. Grzymala applies adhesive tape directly to gallery walls to create three-dimensional drawings that can both wrap around corners and project outwards. Amazing. Thanks, Claire!
I am forever underestimating the craft potential of the simple cardboard box, only to have my mind consistently blown by the creativity and resourcefulness of others. This recycled cardboard wall art tutorial from Bon Temps Beignet looks so clean and modern that it’s easy to forget that it’s actually made out of discarded paper! Head […]
If you have ever tried to install (or re-install) an OS from a thumb-drive on a netbook, small laptop, or other computer without a built-in optical drive, you may have learned the frustrating lesson, as I did, that they are not always hardware equivalent. Many laptops and netbooks will cheerfully boot from an optical drive attached to a USB port, but gronk at the exact same files, or ISO image, on a thumb drive attached to the same port. It’s enough to make you want to throw things. Who wants to buy and keep track of a USB optical drive just for that one purpose?
This kit includes the Arduino Uno, the incredibly popular Getting Started with Arduino Book by Massimo Bansi, and all the components needed to go through the examples in the book.
