Our pals, including Joe Grand (MAKE author and advisory board member) show premiers tonight! Prototype This – Discovery Channel via Hack a Day. Set your DVRs! Mind Controlled Car, October 15 Boxing Robots, October 22 Traffic Busting Truck, October 29 Get Up and Go, November 5 Waterslide Simulator, November 12 Six-Legged All Terrain Vehicle, November […]
Garth of Extreme Craft is working on an upcoming craft book, 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse and has a call for entries for project submissions. Garth writes: I’ll be writing 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse, a book filled with 1000 (you read right) examples of craft, art and design made out of repurposed, reused and […]
The Steel Yard in Providence is pouring iron on Halloween again. The video is from last year’s pour; it looks like an awesome event. The Steel Yard presents its 3rd annual HALLOWEEN IRON POUR! Friday, October 31st – 6:00pm 27 Sims Avenue, Providence This Halloween, come down to the Steel Yard for another molten metal […]
Here’s a note from Dale our publisher… Perhaps the most interesting question in Wednesday’s presidential debate was a question asked near the end by Tom Brokaw… “Should we fund a Manhattan-like project that develops a nuclear bomb to deal with global energy and alternative energy or should we fund 100,000 garages across America, the kind […]
The year is 2008 and ‘Hank Warner’ can no longer wait to attend Maker Faire Austin. Desperate, he decides to have himself cryogenically frozen in order to be revived upon the day of the event. Get your tickets for Maker Faire Austin 2008 Oct 18th and 19th now, don’t wait for the future! (You can […]
Dan Glover of GO-Tech writes: The October GO-Tech meeting (Ann Arbor, MI) is Tuesday, October 14, 8 pm, at Great Oak Cohousing (see below). This will be our 15th meeting! We’ll have a demo of FIRST pneumatics, along with the usual eclectic mix of projects. Bring something cool to show off, especially if it fits […]
We teamed up with our pals from Instructables for what is the biggest Halloween contest on the web. In honor of the best DIY holiday ever, we’re having a party — and everyone’s invited! Elaborate costumes for the whole family, gadgets that go “zzzZAP!,” gross-looking foods, creepy decorations that turn your house into a forbidding […]
