Blender POV
Lurwah of Hackerspace Arnheim converted his blender into a mini POV. It looks extra crispy from the top!
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MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week’s collection of cool photos from the MAKE Flickr pool leads off with dreamexplorer’s “Cruisin'”, from Bay Area Maker Faire 2011. Other highlights include a sweet vintage vacuum tube in a custom laser-cut case and a beautiful forest landscape taken with a pinhole camera,
Arc Attack! Plays Dr. Who
Arc Attack! is back with their unique blend of high voltage and melodic ozone creation. It appears that there are a couple of kids in the faraday cage. How’s that for a memorable childhood experience?
Blipboard at Maker Faire
Blipboard is a geo-location social app. The Blipboard team has developed a nifty custom Blipboard sub-domain for Maker Faire. It’s a wonderful way of finding events and people at the Faire, based on your tagged interests and areas of the Faire where you’ve “checked in.” There’s also a schedule of events in the app and […]
Meet the Teagueduino
If the Arduino wasn’t friendly enough, along comes the Teagueduino from the folks at Teague Labs. Breadboards too confusing? Code have you cross-eyed? Ready-to-go plug-in components and a realtime editor give beginners the training wheels they need to get experimenting right away, while minimizing the fear of breaking something along the way. [Thanks, Adam!] Teagueduino […]
Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets (the Interview)
Tero Karvinen and Kimmo Karvinen are authors of the recently-published Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets, which teaches you how to build your own robots, turn your ideas into prototypes, control devices with a computer, and make your own cell phone applications. They’ll both be joining us at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 in the Maker […]
GGHC Finalist Profile — Hackerspace Charlotte
#google_ads_div_mz_hackerspace_125x125_ad_container { float:right; margin:-14px 0 5px 10px; } // Tuesday and last week we profiled two of the three finalists of element14’s Great Global Hackerspace Challenge — Pumping Station: One’s Biosdensor Array and BuildBrighton’s Phonicubes. Today we cover Hackerspace Charlotte‘s excellent tool for teaching electronics, Feltronics. The project consists of felt shapes resembling electronics […]