This week in Maker Events
Looking to take a break from tinkering on your latest project this weekend? Here are some fine maker events to check out, from The Maker Events Calendar.
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The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
Kitchen 101: Roasting Garlic
By Katie Goodman Roasted garlic is a great way to add flavor depth to a dish: toss it in with a pasta dish, mash it into mashed potatoes, puree it into marinades or even spread it just as is on a piece of toast. If you’ve never roasted your own garlic before, have no fear. […]
Giant Cardboard Robot Gate Crashes Maker Faire
Roaming the grounds at the Maker Faire was a Giant Cardboard Robot. A gate-crashing giant cardboard robot. He was tromping through the faire greeting guests, but was also seen dancing to jug band with a moss covered Swamp Kirin. Surrealism at it’s finest. Photo by Flickr user sassymonkeymedia.
Giant cardboard robot suit
Jason Lentz shows off his impressive cardboard exoskeleton at Maker Faire. To hear Jason tell it, the arms were the only tricky part to make. There’s more info at the project’s Facebook group and in Jason’s Flickr collection.
Awesome GBC (great ball contraption)
This gigantic Mindstorms robot is quite possibly the most skillfully designed I’ve ever seen. There are at least ten different subsystems that deserve their own posts — I especially love the many ball-elevating systems, particularly the one that sorts soccer balls into one channel and basketballs into the other. GBCs are collaborative building projects where […]
Rock Band stage kit controlled by a .NET-powered micro
This project demonstrates how to use the Xbox Rock Band Stage Kit with Micro framework using GHI’s USB Host feature….no Xbox is necessary!
Augmented reality without programming in five minutes
A somewhat cryptic but fascinating tutorial on AR using Quartz Composer. [via Beyond The Beyond]