To celebrate the launch of her new novel, Miss Scarlet’s School of Patternless Sewing, Crafty Chica has a fabulous book launch sweepstakes happening now. It’s easy to enter and there are tons of great prizes. The grand prize is your chance to win a Singer sewing machine and Gidget sewing table! The deadline to enter […]
Members of the Manchester, UK hakcerspace HAC:Manchester used a projector, an Arduino, and some rotary encoders to build this giant project-a-sketch. Here’s a video of it in use by Maria of littlestar.tv: [via Hackerspaces Soup] More: Sketch3D, the 3D Etch A Sketch Print Your Own CNC Etch-A-Sketch Gears Mouse-A-Sketch Toys for Bots – Arduino controlled […]
Hello Makers, We’ll be doing another bit of maintenance over the weekend (WordPress’ development cycle is off the chain!), so we’ll be down for about 15 minutes (knock on wood) starting at 11pm PST on Saturday, March 12th. Hopefully that won’t interrupt your feverish sawing and hammering!
Piezoelectric materials are about as close to magic as you can get. They turn physical pressure into electricity and can even turn electricity into physical pressure – an amazing sort of bidirectional converter for mechanical and electrical energies. Perhaps even more amazing is the fact that you can easily ‘grow’ your own piezoelectric crystals overnight […]
Debbie Schoop-Wilson, our friend and colleague over in the accounting department, shared with us some photos and the story of how she transformed her plain old bathroom into a fabulous I Dream of Jeannie-themed room, inspired by Jeannie’s plush retreat inside her bottle. Tramaine de Senna, a MAKE/CRAFT alum and talented artist, helped Debbie bring […]
We’re thrilled by how things are shaping up for this year’s Maker Faire Bay Area. This year’s theme will be: 2011: A Maker Space Odyssey — From Maker Space to Outer Space Some highlights for 2011, so far, include: Returning Favorites: – MakerBot 3D printing area – MakerShed Learn to Solder Area – Arc Attack […]
GO, GO GADGETS @ THEDAILY. This is that new iPad magazine, and it’s also online. Our own Becky Stern makes an appearance! Meet the real-life MacGyvers. Engineers and garage tinkerers across the country are building their own MP3 players, 3D printers and, yes, even light guns. And they say you can too. The Daily talked […]
