Today is Craftzine.com’s 3rd birthday! If you can believe it, I posted the very first post back on this day in 2006. Now with over 9,000 posts and seven editors, we’re doing our best to bring you original craft projects and features, as well as the best of crafts we’re spotting on the web. Thanks to everyone for reading us each day!
MAKE subscriber Michael Beck is looking to start up a maker/hacker group in the Salt Lake City, Utah area – I am interested in gathering a group of makers to share and inspire the Make spirit here in Salt Lake City. Plans to start are to meet regularly and if things go good create a […]
The James Dyson Awards have a simple brief: “Design something that solves a problem.” The top video is for a conductive body paint (not sure what problem that solves, but still cool), the second is for a kind of fastener technology for consumer electronics that would make post-consumer disassembly much faster and cheaper (looks like […]
Former Make: Online contributor Jonah Brucker-Cohen wrote in to tell us about ReFunct 09, a symposium of the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, that he’s involved with. This series of events will combine workshops, discussions, performances, and an exhibition on hardware hacking and circuit bending. On August 22, Jonah will be presenting one of his […]
Just wanted our readers to know that we’ve revamped our Projects section (the orange tab at the top) of the site. Make: Projects now contains all of the longer, original step-by-step projects we’ve posted on MAKE. We’re working on a categorized project listing as well, so you can browse by key categories. We’ve also added […]
MAKE, Volume 19 features a special section on robots. Learn how to make a model plane with an autopilot and a small built-in robot brain. We also show you how to make a comfortable plywood chair, a bicyclist’s vest that shows how fast you’re going, and projects that introduce you to servomotors. There’s a free […]
Parallax announced their 2009 Propeller design contest. The deadline is November 16, 2009, so you still have plenty of time to get your project started. The grand prize is $2000! Projects will be judged according to the following factors: 30% Propeller Design Appropriateness Determined on applicant’s ability to use the Propeller’s unique architecture to achieve […]
