One of our Maker Faire Daily bloggers, Kent Barnes, posted a few pics of the crew doing their thing during this weekend’s Faire. There are so many amazing people who put in untold numbers of hours to make these shows happen. Here are just a few of their smiling faces, there are some more on the link, and there are countless others unpictured here, but all equally worthy of heartfelt appreciation.
If you stopped by the Make and Craft stages this weekend at Maker Faire, I hope you had the chance to relax in one of our giant tie-die bean bags. We got a lot of folks asking where we got them – I’m happy to report we rented them from Hartmann Studios. Sounds to me […]
Erin of Elysian Studios created a wonderfully simple tutorial for using your sewing machine as a sketching tool. Add a darning foot, drop your feed dogs, and start drawing with thread. (Don’t worry, she provides a lot more detail than that right over here. I love how she’s layered paper and fabric into a collage […]
A book about Lithium batteries “Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy”… This looks interesting! Electric cars are real—see the Tesla Roadster, Chevy Volt, and hybrids like the Nissan Leaf and Toyota Prius—but the drive to create safe, lightweight, and long-lasting batteries to power them has been anything but smooth. Faced with […]
See how to mix the fun and whimsy of pom poms with the chic style of chains in this tutorial from Honestly … WTF.
Honduran teenager Luis Cruz, whose low-cost homebrew embedded video game system was featured in MAKE Vol 23, wrote in to let us know about his most recent project, a similarly low-cost prototype electrooculography (EOG) system, based on the ATmega328P, that allows people with motor disabilities to write text on a screen using only eye movements.
By Katie Goodman Many kids will try just about anything as long as they have something yummy to dip it in. I say many, not all, because my 6 year old doesn’t fit into this category. But my daughter is a natural born dipper. Chicken, grilled potatoes, hot dogs, and fish are all gobbled with […]
