Make: Live airs tonight! Don’t miss our Maker Faire episode where guests Super Awesome Sylvia, Jimmie Rogers, and Russell the electric giraffe join us live from the Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 preparty.
If the Arduino wasn’t friendly enough, along comes the Teagueduino from the folks at Teague Labs. Breadboards too confusing? Code have you cross-eyed? Ready-to-go plug-in components and a realtime editor give beginners the training wheels they need to get experimenting right away, while minimizing the fear of breaking something along the way. [Thanks, Adam!] Teagueduino […]
Todd Williams is jewelry maker with a fine hand, a sculpture maker with a wit, and a performer trickster. He might spend 200 or 300 hours perfecting one of his incredible Land Sharks but the real work comes when he brings them out to play. His sculptures are animations that interact with people at events like Burning Man and Coachella by chasing each other through the crowds. While the chassis of the sharks is a remote control monster truck, you can’t just drive a Land Shark, you have to become a Land Shark.
Tero Karvinen and Kimmo Karvinen are authors of the recently-published Make: Arduino Bots and Gadgets, which teaches you how to build your own robots, turn your ideas into prototypes, control devices with a computer, and make your own cell phone applications. They’ll both be joining us at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 in the Maker […]
I really like the elegant and simple look of this 30s-style scalloped collar. The tutorial is on Elegant Musings, appropriately enough. This looks like it should be an outfit in the film Fried Green Tomatoes.
Here’s a smart and dead-simple way to turn plain old clear pens into something customized and fancy. Visit Chocolate on my Cranium‘s photo tutorial, bust out your pretty paper scraps, and say goodbye to boring pens!
Whether you are an avid gardener or don’t have an ounce of green in your thumb, succulents are the perfect plant for you.
