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MAKE is at the FIRST Robotics expo at the Javits Center in NYC for the NY/NJ regionals. Check out my Flickr set for some of the robot action! The New York City / New Jersey FIRST is a regional office of FIRST, the 501c3 nonprofit organization created to inspire youth to pursue further studies and careers […]
Each week I help Ladyada with “Ask an engineer” at 10pm ET, a live video chat for beginners and pros, all about engineering and making things – this week she will going through another chapter in the Make: Electronics book, she’ll also answer questions from the “Maker Business: Adafruit Industries, how it’s made – an […]
These brightly colored eggs were dyed using packets of Kool-Aid instead of traditional egg dyes. Pam of Gingerbread Snowflakes shares her process for experimenting with Kool-Aid and even includes some of pitfalls she encountered.
The cats at Hackerspaces.org are calling for a worldwide hackathon in hackerspaces the weekend of March 20th, 2010. These events are the third weekend of every month, with the inaugural event held last November. Hackerspaces participating in past events have included Chicago’s PS1, Luxembourg’s Syn2cat, Ireland’s TOG, France’s Tetalab, Saint Louis’s Arch Reactor and a […]
These white flowers are so pretty. I love that their creator, lapomme on etsy, calls them, “plush toys for grownups!”All her work is in the same lovely vein of light and sophisticated charm. Check out the featured seller interview for lovely insight on “Apple’s” process.
Last week, Jarod gave us some ideas of what to do with stale bread. This week he’ll be explaining how to turn old or undrinkable wine into a mother of vinegar, and then how to make vinegar from the mother. About a month ago, I was fortunate enough to attend a dinner party given by […]
Instructables user seamster writes: The initial goal of this project was to make a couple of bean bag-style pillow chairs stuffed with pieces of recycled foam. But when I began working on a cover for the first pillow chair, I realized it looked a heck of a lot like an enormous brassiere. So I did […]
