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The HOPE Number 9 conference is approaching. HOPE is the “Hackers on Planet Earth” conference by 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, and it’s at the Hotel Pennsylvania in NYC this weekend. It’s held every couple of years. I’ve attended a few, and I’m looking forward to seeing many old and new friends. So far there have […]
This is a clever idea from Sheri on Childmade: Scrabble-tile wall art! She was struggling to figure out what to give her two 90-year-old grandmothers for Christmas because, as she put it, “They simply already have everything.” It’s a tradition for her to play Scrabble with one of her grandmothers, so Sheri decided to make […]
This chair for tikes is the creation of the boardgames crew on Etsy.
NYC Resistor’s Herb “POTUS31” Hoover experimented with a titanium anodizer project that uses daisy-chained 9V batteries and a sponge soaked in Coke. I’ve been wanting to anodize titanium and use the laser to create masks for the different colors. Translucent oxides form on titanium with heat or voltage. (I also tried lasering colors into niobium, […]
I love upholstery projects, and this upholstered checkerboard table tutorial is no exception. I have to admit that a part of me thinks it’s a little bit insane to piece a vinyl checkerboard (why not just stencil one with paint??) but the rest of me just thinks it’s awesome. It’s part of a great Upholstery […]
BeagleBoard.org launched the BeagleBone last October as an inexpensive, hacker-friendly variant of the BeagleBoard. The price ($89) and size (it comes with a custom Altoids-like tin) have attracted a small community of hardware hackers looking for an open embedded Linux solution for projects requiring a bit of horsepower and speed. One shining example is the […]
We’re excited to be covering Comic-Con this year for MAKE, as part of our “alt.” event coverage, where we look at these cons through a maker’s lens. I got here last night and things were already hopping. The scale of this event is staggering. I’ll be talking to some old friends and MAKE contributors, like […]
