From advancements in technology and materials, to the development of innovative techniques and ideas, there’s always something new on the horizon. As a maker, your success depends on your ability to keep up with all these changes. Let’s take a look at some of the most noteworthy developments that are taking place in making right now!
By Andrew Lewis When I was very young, I had a pop-up puppet toy that I would play with all the time. I only remembered the toy recently, while I was trying to figure out what to do with a stack of old machine wool cones. Not only are these fun for playtime, they’re quite […]
Need a fun, kid safe summer project? The Getting Started with Compressed Air Rockets kit from the Maker Shed is perfect for young makers! Just a few pumps of a bicycle pump (not included) will send homemade rockets blasting 200-300 feet into the air! Perfect for families, summer camps, neighborhoods, or just for fun. High quality parts are built to last for years and thousands of launches.
Our amazing Maker Faire team has been hard at work on the upcoming World Maker Faire (NYC, Sept. 17 & 18, 2011) and they just sent me this memo with details on how to become part of the World Maker Faire Street Team. Please help us spread the good word in and around the New York boroughs and earning some Faire tickets in the process! Sound like fun?
Here’s a beautiful look into the artistic life and creative process of so-called avant cellist, Zoë Keating. This is my favorite interview of Intel’s Visual Life series, a surprisingly wonderful campaign for a corporate entity. I encourage you to check out the other videos. When people say, “What do you do?” I find it a […]
If you haven’t seen the Center Stage sessions from Maker Faire Bay Area, the folks at FORA.tv have the entire set available online. See Massimo Banzi, Gever Tulley, David Brin, a presentation on the AlloSphere project at the California Nanosystems Institute, Mary Haskett on risk taking, and many other great presentations.
GO, GO GADGETS @ THEDAILY. This is that new iPad magazine, and it’s also online. Our own Becky Stern makes an appearance! Meet the real-life MacGyvers. Engineers and garage tinkerers across the country are building their own MP3 players, 3D printers and, yes, even light guns. And they say you can too. The Daily talked […]
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with control panels. I dreamed of making a spaceship capsule out of my room, covered with toggles and panel lights that I could used to launch countless astronaut and sci-fi fantasies. The closest I ever came to this was a six-pad rocketry launch controller my friends (and […]
