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MAKE goes to the Emmys!

MAKE goes to the Emmys!

John Park ready for the Red Carpet. Nice Bond meets MacGyver thing goin’ on there, JEP. We’re all just aflutter with excitement here at Maker Media ’cause tonight is the 37th Annual Daytime Creative Arts and Entertainment Emmy Awards, and Make: television is up for an award! We’re up against Martha Stewart, This Old House, […]

E-Textile and Soft Sensors Workshop in LA

Syuzi Pakhchyan, author of Fashioning Technology, will be teaching an e-textile and soft sensor workshop this Sunday, June 27th from 12pm -3pm at CrashSpace in Los Angeles. Syuzi writes: This course will introduce you to an exciting new palate of conductive threads and fabrics — some of which aren’t commercially available. Unique properties and qualities […]

Rolling in a Zorb

Rolling in a Zorb

Upon hearing about my most recent knee injury, MAKE (and CRAFT) contributor Andrew Lewis asked if I might consider “zorbing” (video) as an alternative mode of transportation. I had to look it up, and found out it’s a New Zealand-born “sport” of rolling down hills in a spherical plastic balloon, inflated with leaf blowers. It […]

Lamp brightens as heated oil melts, clarifies

Lamp brightens as heated oil melts, clarifies

The Slow Glow lamp, by NEXT architects for trendy Dutch design collective Droog, is a really simple, cool idea: The bulb is surrounded by a blob of a low-melting point oil (soya oil) that clarifies as the bulb melts it and thus causes the light to gradually brighten over the course of a couple hours as it is turned on. As you can see, it’s just a cork ring, a lamp kit with a tubular bulb, and a few bits of lab glass. But they want $790 US for it from their online store. Which, by the way, is one of those annoying pages that disables right-clicking. Gonna add this one to my personal re-make pile.