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Announcing Make: en Español

Announcing Make: en Español

As part of our ongoing Pinky and the Brain-worthy plot to take over the world, or in our case, make over the world, we’re thrilled to announce Make: en Español, a version of Make: Online for the Spanish-speaking world. Welcome to the Maker Media family editor Mauricio Gómez and his staff of writers. We look […]

Lost Knowledge: Island tricks

Lost Knowledge: Island tricks

The weekly Lost Knowledge column explores the possible technology of the future in the forgotten ideas of the past (and those slightly off to the side). Each Tuesday, we look at retro-tech, “lost” technology, and the make-do, improvised “street tech” of village artisans and tradespeople from around the globe. “Lost Knowledge” is also the theme […]

Meteotek high-altitude balloon project

Meteotek high-altitude balloon project

Meteotek is a Spanish high school project to build a meteorological sounding balloon equipped with temperature and pressure sensors, GPS, radio, and a still camera. They had a successful launched on February 28, 2009. Their Flickr pages are in (Catalan) Spanish, but the photos speak for themselves. It’s just endlessly amazing to me that the […]

Lost Knowledge: The Antikythera Device

Lost Knowledge: The Antikythera Device

The weekly Lost Knowledge column explores the possible technology of the future in the forgotten ideas of the past (and those slightly off to the side). Each Tuesday, we look at retro-tech, “lost” technology, and the make-do, improvised “street tech” of village artisans and tradespeople from around the globe. “Lost Knowledge” is also the theme […]