Month: June 2013

How CAD Empowers Kids: Carl Bass at Maker Faire

How CAD Empowers Kids: Carl Bass at Maker Faire

The chief executive at Autodesk obviously prepared this talk for kids, and he arrived at Maker Faire dressed for the part: wearing a baseball cap, t-shirt, jeans, and sneakers. Not what he wears when he’s talking to shareholders about fiscal year 2013. But Bass can pull it off: he has a marvelously casual style, and a real passion for making. The result: this is a fantastic primer on computer aided design (CAD) for kids — and for anyone who would like a very easy-going intro to some of the most basic, free tools and services available.

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Hacking for a Better Food System

Hacking for a Better Food System

Hackathons are great for solving software and hardware problems. So why not apply that process and energy to our broken food system? That’s the thinking behind a Hack//Meat Silicon Valley underway at Stanford University. Today through Sunday food industry leaders, entrepreneurs, technologists and creatives will team up to develop hardware and software solutions to some of the greatest challenges facing sustainable meat production and consumption

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Wise Tips from MAKE Readers

Wise Tips from MAKE Readers

“Don’t get so caught up in thinking that you never do anything.” “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.” For our upcoming Make: Newsletter, which will be focused on handy tips, I put a call out on our social media channels to share their favorite tips. Here are some of our favorite responses.

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K’Nex Tic-Tac-Toe Robot

K’Nex Tic-Tac-Toe Robot

Instructable user OddBot built this Arduino-controlled Tic-Tac-Toe robot built out of K’Nex (actually, he used LOZ, a K’Nex ripoff product) using ping pong balls. He controls the robot with a universal TV remote and an IR receiver, and you can actually configure the game with the remote, setting up (for instance) a larger board like […]

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