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Over at the Steel Yard blog, Jackson writes: Camp Metalhead, the Steel Yard’s two week summer youth program, is firing on all cylinders! By the first day, all ten of the students had learned to cut steel using the versatile oxy acetylene torch. A morning trip to our partners over at Mid City Steel and […]
The latest Exploratorium: Maker Saturday Webcast is up – CandyFab, the sugar printer created by Windell Oskay and Lenore Edman, creates 3D sculpture by stacking 2D images made of sugar. This sweet project ties together many disciplines–motion control, woodworking, microcontroller programming, sewing, reverse engineering, circuit hacking, high-power analog electronics, 3D modeling, and computer programming. Windell […]
Dave writes – Last year, I and five friends created this scale version of the popular Brio Labyrinth game for Holocene’s Annual Mini Golf Invitational, where artists are asked to create original mini-golf holes. Labyrinth: The Mini-golf Version is just like Labyrinth: the Original Laptop Game, except played with a golf ball instead of a […]
This is pretty nice, an AVR dimmer with RC5 and serial interface and ATtiny2313 (there’s a kit too, well PCBs) — Link.
If you attended the BlogHer panel on “The Art of Crafts” I promised to post up a list of craft blogs and sites that would help you get started. I read A LOT Of blogs so I’ve included a good variety of blogs that I read on a daily basis, but just know I couldn’t […]
Oh yes, what a great time we had at the BlogHer conference in Chicago! I loved meeting all the ladies who blog (and a handful of men there too), the conference truly showed how diverse and fun blogland on the Internet can be. Thanks to Leah Peterson for inviting me and for organizing/moderating our crafts […]
Brian posted up the video from the OSCON (open source convention) on open source hardware so here are the slides too – Link (ZIP, Keynote slides, HTML and PDF).http://cachefly.oreilly.com/make/osh/osh.zip or just the PDF here – Link.
