We’ve extended the deadline for our MAKE Volume 27 robot contest by one week. The new deadline is 11:59 PDT on Friday, May 20, 2011. Got bots with character? We want to meet them! We’re in search of entertaining bots that you’ve built. The most important part of this contest is the video of your […]
With up to thirty hackerspaces participating in element14’s Great Global Hackerspace Challenge, it’s hard to summarize all of their work over the past few weeks. However, XinCheJian’s Ricky Ng-Adam’s GGHC Awards does a great job of profiling most of the projects competing in the contest, and even offers unofficial awards like “Best surprise working feature […]
Calling all braaaaaaains… The deadline to submit a solution for the MakeShift that was featured in MAKE Volume 25 is June 3! This one was a personal favorite. (Also, I’m the zombie in the bottom left corner of the window!) Check out some fun outtakes from the photo shoot on the article page. The Scenario: […]
We’ve had some great feedback lately to our contest questions, so we’ve decided to throw the door wide open on the latest element14 giveaway and see what flies in! The comments on the landing page are rocking along great, so far, but we want your input, too! So now’s the time to dust off your “I always wished MAKE would…” file, flip open the cover, and let us know what’s inside. We’ve got ten subs to give away, so there’s plenty to go ’round. Thanks for your time and attention!
Few droids in this world are as recognizable as R2-D2, and thanks to the R2 Builders Clubs, impeccably reproduced R2 droids have been seen zooming around Maker Faire Bay Area for the past three years. They are responsible for countless smiles at the Faire, and this year they are coming back with their droids. We […]
The folks at element14 are giving away TEN one-year subs to MAKE in a giveaway on our Make: Arduino page. To be eligible leave a comment on the giveaway page (as per the instructions given there. That’s it! The eligible commenting period will last until this Friday (5/6) at 11:59pm PDT. The winners will be […]
Over on CRAFT, Katie Wilson has some exclusive comments from Oakland artist Shawn HibmaCronan, whose mechanical sculpture “The Press” is on display at Terminal 2 of the San Francisco International Airport until 2021. I’m guessing the lawyers put a rope around it when they saw those big potentially-finger-crushing gears, but Shawn talks about how important it was to design the mechanism to be operated by a single person. So it’d be cool if they actually let people operate it.
