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Firstgiving at Maker Faire Austin

Firstgiving at Maker Faire Austin

We are excited to work with Firstgiving at Maker Faire Austin and wanted to let you know more about it before the big event! Firstgiving lets anyone raise money for any nonprofit at any time, by using person to person fundraising pages to leverage personal connections and social networks. If you’re a nonprofit, you can […]

County Fair Fun

The turnout at Saturday’s paper bead demo at the L.A. County Fair (hosted by myself and CRAFT Ed-in-Chief Carla Sinclair) was wonderful! Pictured above is Lindsey, a sweet kid who took to the craft almost immediately and whipped up this cute necklace for herself. A lot of people walked away with fun new jewelry that […]

Demo vid of Tomy’s i-SOBOT

Billing it as the world’s smallest humanoid robot, toymaker Tomy has released a video of the i-Sobot, showing off what it can do. Pretty impressive for something that will retail for US$299. Amazon already has it available for preorder. It will allegedly ship next month. i-SOBOT Rocks, Rolls, And Somersaults – Link i-SOBOT [Robots Rule!] […]