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openFrameworks workshop tomorrow in NYC

openFrameworks workshop tomorrow in NYC

You’ve seen tons of cool openFrameworks projects here on MAKE over the years. If you haven’t heard about this open source creative coding toolkit, you should. If you’re in NYC this weekend, there’s going to be a workshop on using openFrameworks at Parsons tomorrow: This DT Dorkshop will be lead by Parsons MFA Design + […]

Album of electronic components

Album of electronic components

And you thought stamp collecting was geeky! I love this idea. These are cheap coin-collecting albums. What a fabulous teaching aid and way of organizing components so that students of electronics can see the parts families, different varieties of components, different package types, etc. The background labels are even color-coded so that component types are […]

The Perfection of Ferns

Ferns are one of the most structurally interesting plants on earth. Some are tiny with a a delicate, etherial frond. Others are enormous and leathery with a prehistoric look. I have always loved them, so much in fact, that when I made my bridal bouquet I used only ferns and not a single flower. Here […]