Haunted Mansion Wedding
Haunted house enthusiasts Jason and Melissa had a fantastically ghoulish Haunted Mansion-themed wedding at a cemetery chapel featuring elaborate props and Haunted Mansion-style wallpaper!
Month: August 2013
$10 Robot Challenge: Can you do It?
The AFRON Ultra Affordable Robotics Challenge is underway. What could you make for less than $10?
BPOW Festival Celebrates the Art of Salvaged Sound
The BPOW festival in Portland, organized by Molecule Synth’s Travis Feldman, celebrates circuit bending and electronic music.
12 Surprising Details About Lego Mindstorms EV3
Yesterday I unboxed the new Lego Mindstorms EV3 set, and even before powering on the microcontroller brick, I’d noticed a number of interesting changes, both great and unfortunate, as compared with the previous set, called Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0.
Meet Detroit Maker Carlos Neilbock
If you went to Maker Faire Detroit or looked at pictures of almost anyone who attended, then you have glimpsed Carlos Neilbock’s work. His first piece was prominently installed and towering — a large windmill made from discarded items including a collection of repurposed satellite dishes, a truck axle with a bright glinting rim, salvaged […]
Build a Hackable Bytebeat Player at the RI Mini Maker Faire
The Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire is this Saturday, featuring dozens of makers alongside the usual music and shenanigans of AS220’s annual Foo Fest. Each year we run a soldering workshop as part of the Faire; this year we’ll be making a hackable bytebeat player from Modern Device, the Byteseeker Junior. The Byteseeker is an […]
Maker Hangar Episode 10: Maker Trainer Assembly
Maker Hangar is a 15-part video series by Lucas Weakley. In Episode 10 of Maker Hangar, the second episode of the build series for the Maker Trainer, Lucas Weakley shows us how to build the plane and get it ready for electronics to be installed. We learn how to fold and glue together the fuselage, […]