How a mechanical watch works
Another beautiful how-to video, this one describing all of the bits that go into making a mechanical watch work.
Education
Maker Education is such a valuable role. These stories will bring you the latest information and tales of maker educators who area spreading the maker mindset. Help others learn how to make things or how to think like a maker at makerspaces, schools, universities, and local communities. The importance of maker education can not be understated. We appreciate our educators.
SchoolTool connects schools
Tom Hoffman and I spoke about SchoolTool at the Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire. This system helps remotely-located schools share data with national governmental ministries of education, through Ubuntu and SMS.
Color chemistry crayons
This is understandable, really, because the chemical composition of many crayons, even if you ignore the wax binder and just focus on the coloring, is extraordinarily complicated, containing many different pigments carefully blended to achieve just the right color. Even if the formulations weren’t trade secrets, it’d be doubtful if many of them could be fit on a crayon label in a legible typeface.
Dirty Electronics weekend laboratory
This class looks interesting, Dirty Electronics, September 18th-19th in Nottingham, UK. Dirty electronics refers to an approach in electronic music that is directly opposed to those found in mass produced digital culture and includes some of the following characteristics: designer trash, ugly, cheap, heavy, hand-made, designed to be handled or to come in contact with […]
The NOMAD Project: call for entries
Have you produced a low or no budget film? The NOMAD Project has a call for entries out for it’s “Access & PARADOX” exhibition, which could be a great opportunity to show off your DIY movie making skills: NOMAD Films was created as a means for exhibiting new approaches to producing and distributing short, documentary […]
Channel-changing “most useful” machine
Randy Sarafan made this simple automated button pusher, which presses the “channel up” button on a TV remote once every minute. I bet he has pressed the channel-up button thousands, if not tens-of-thousands, of times. That’s a lot of effort being exerted to change the channel. But what if that effort was not necessary? What […]
Letters from the Fab Academy, Part 7
In this, the final in our series of “Letters,” Shawn Wallace, member of AS220, the Providence, RI community arts and technology space, shares his experiences with the Fab Academy, a distributed learning collaborative, built on the infrastructure of the Fab Lab network. (Links to all of Shawn’s inspiring “Letters” are available at the end of […]
