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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, […]
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 […]
The projects submitted to our Save My Oceans contest were innovative and inspirational and were all great examples of the brilliant ways our readers reuse plastics. Each day this week, we’ll highlight one of our top five entries, and we’ll announce the Grand prize winner next Monday. Be sure to check out the entire Save […]
I’m super excited about the Jell-O mold competition happening tomorrow at the Gowanus Studio Space in Brooklyn, NY. Creative plastic forming designers will create masterpieces from the colorful jiggly stuff, and I get to be one of the judges! It’s free to go and check out the artistry, and winners will be announced at 8pm. […]
I’m super excited about the Jell-O mold competition happening tomorrow at the Gowanus Studio Space in Brooklyn, NY. Creative plastic forming designers will create masterpieces from the colorful jiggly stuff, and I get to be one of the judges! It’s free to go and check out the artistry, and winners will be announced at 8pm. […]
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 […]
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.
