Camper Obscura
Photographers Jonathan Blyth and Matthew Pontin of FOTONOW turned a camper van into a mobile camera obscura and have been taking it all over the UK for visitors to experience it.
Month: April 2013
MAKE Welcomes Ken Denmead as Editorial Director
I’d like to welcome Ken Denmead to Maker Media. He’ll start May 13 as editorial director. He replaces outgoing editorial director Gareth Branwyn. Ken has been editor and publisher of Geekdad and publisher of Geekmom, which recently struck out on its own. Ken is a civil engineer who will be quitting his day job to join us at MAKE. We’re excited to have his energy and experience to help us shape our online community.
Metrix Open Hardware Lab’s Brainwave RepRap Controller
Located inside Metrix Create:Space at the heart of Seattle, Metrix Open Hardware Lab features a pick and place machine and a reflow soldering line for manufacturing various open source electronics. Its first product, the Brainwave, purports to be the lowest-cost alzl-in-one 3D printer control board solution on the market.
How-To: Picnic-Style Placemats
Get a jump on those summer outdoor eating plans with this picnic-style placemat tutorial!
Freaklabs’ Akiba Visits Dharamsala, India
Expatriate hacker Chris “Akiba” Wang of Tokyo recently participated in a cool opportunity to deploy a sensor network in Dharamsala, India. I got an email from Marco at the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy. He’s part of UNESCO and we’re working together on a weather monitoring project. He was asking about the […]
Being a Printer Master: Managing Mass Printing in a Makerspace
Sure, your 3D Printer runs reliably as long as it sits safely at home, but what would happen if dozens of college students used it each week? Georgia Tech Mechanical Engineering student Jeff Landrum discusses the challenges behind building, managing, and automating a “printer farm” at one of the largest student-run makerspaces in the country.
How-To: Magnetic Cork Planters
Display your succulents for all to see—and secure that A+ math test to the refrigerator—with cute magnetic cork planters!