CRAFT is in Planet Green’s Top 10 DIY Sites List
Planet Green just announced its “Top 10 Sites for Do It Yourself Projects,” and the CRAFT blog is number six!
Announcements
Cabin Fever 2009 model engineering expo
Dorkbot DC founder Thomas Edwards, now kickin’ it at Dorkbot SoCal, sent us this message, reminding us about Cabin Fever Expo, coming up this weekend, in PA: A friend of mine told me about “Cabin Fever Expo”, a yearly exhibition of what-yer-been-working-on, with respect to metalworking, model making, steam engines, locomotives, miniature gas engines, etc […]
Tom Igoe’s monkey tracking adventures
Tom Igoe, author of Making Things Talk, is in the rainforest in eastern Ecuador, applying his sensor and embedded hacking skills to tracking monkeys (from Part 4 of his adventure postings): This morning, Kevin and Tony and I went to look for titi monkeys. We didn’t find any, but we did manage to get lost, […]
Greener gadgets contest: only 3 days left to enter!
The picture says it all, and you can even click on it to register (technology is so fancy): ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT TO ENTER: Deadline is January 15! In association with CEA, Core77 hosts this year’s Greener Gadgets Design Competition 2009, challenging designers to create the next generation of greener gadgets. Once again, finalists will […]
Guest contributor: John Maushammer
I love the people at Make and what they’ve done for the DIY community, so I jumped at the chance to guest blog here. Just a quick introduction: I’m a hacker who loves how to understand how things work inside & out. At my job, I design electronic systems; at home, I usually tend to […]
The Knitter Magazine
A new UK magazine, The Knitter, recently launched. Ann & Kay of Mason-Dixon Knitting have some info about the magazine that is apparently available at Barnes & Noble and Borders here in the states. via Lime & Violet.
MAKE: television Premieres on more Public Television stations this weekend
Here’s a list of all of the markets that are premiering MAKE: television this weekend. For a complete list of stations, visit www.makezine.tv/broadcast.
Remember you can watch all of our episodes online at makezine.tv. Episode 2 will be live on January 10th at 7am CST.
Florida
Tampa-St. Pete, WEDU, 1/9/2009 Fri at 3:00 PM
http://www.wedu.org/
Oklahoma
Tulsa, RSU Public Television, 1/9/2009 Fri at 1:00 PM
http://www.rsupublictv.org/
California
Los Angeles, KLCS, 1/10/2009, Sat at12:00 PM
http://www.klcs.org/
San Francisco, KQED, 1/10/2009, Sat at 8:00 AM
and KQED WORLD (Digital 9.3 & Comcast Cable 190) Sat 2pm & 7:30pm
http://kqed.org/
DC
Washington, DC, WETA,
1/10/2009, Sat 5:30 PM
www.weta.com