Happy Memorial Day! We hope our readers in the U.S. are enjoying the day off and are looking forward to your picnics in the park or barbecues in the backyard. Here’s a quick recipe from Martha Stewart for a fruit pie with crumb topping that’s a cinch to make as a last minute dessert for […]
Registration is now open for CommunityOne West, June 1-3, 2009, San Francisco. Get up to speed on dozens of free and open-source projects driving innovation in cloud computing, Web application development, social and collaborative technologies, and more. The main conference on Monday, June 1, is free, but space is limited. Deep Dive tutorials on Tuesday, […]
Last Friday, we had a great show with Ken Gracey of Parallax and Jeff Ledger of the Parallax forums, the fellow organizing the upcoming all-night Unofficial Propeller Expos. The first one, Expo West, is happening on June 27-28, 2009, at Parallax HQ, in Rocklin, CA. Expo North East is happening on August 22, in Norwalk, […]
Here ye, here ye, read all about it: San Mateo County Board of Supervisors declares last weekend in May as “Maker’s Weekend.” Sayeth the press release: At the center of Silicon Valley and the birthplace of the original garage start-up, San Mateo continues to be the hub of innovation, creativity, and fun. Representing this tradition […]
Microsoft has teamed up with Make: Online to develop a series of embedded projects that make use of Windows Embedded CE, Visual Studio 2005 Pro, and third-party embedded hardware. We’ve brought our pal Kipp Bradford on-board to create three Windows Embedded-based projects and to document them, here on Make: Online and on Microsoft’s SPARK Your […]
Milojo Productions (brainchild of Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos) is now casting women with fabulous ideas and great personalities from across America for a new series. The show, set to air on TLC, takes a selected female inventor through the journey of realizing their dream. It’s an opportunity to get your product developed, manufactured, marketed, […]
Mountain Bike Rescue This Friday, May 22nd, is the deadline for the MakeShift challenge that appeared in MAKE, Volume 17. To enter, send a detailed description of your MakeShift solution with sketches and/or photos to makeshift@makezine.com. Here’s the challenge: The Scenario: You and your best friend, both experienced mountain bikers, take off on a daylong […]
