The Milwaukee Makerspace is having a grand opening party next weekend on Saturday, April 9th, 2011. They’ve got a great schedule of events planned, including a Power Wheels race, stump the maker contest, circuit etching and biodiesel demonstrations, food, and live music. If you’re in the area, this would be a great time to go […]
A lot of us saw a tantalizing glimpse of EMSL‘s sweet new barbot on the most recent episode of Make: Live, and here it is! Twice the pumps, twice the ingredients and twice the radness of last year’s model. My favorite part are the beakers cut into spouts that dip down to dispense the ingredients […]
Momma D and Da Boyz has a fun tutorial, based off of a Simplicity tutorial, for a cute Easter egg wreath. Check it out.
I’m fascinated by this ingenious use of recycling from musician Laurie Anderson, pointed out by our friends at RePlayGround. Musician Laurie Anderson has her own spin on reusing tape to create new sound. She created a violin bow strung with magnetic audio tape instead of horse hair. By drawing the bow across the violin strings, […]
SAMSA is based on the Wiring board, with an ATmega128 microcontroller, and SAMSA II on the Arduino Mega, with an ATmega1280. Both are pretty similar, tough the ATmega1280 has 8 KB SRAM, twice the ATmega128. For SAMSA II the Arduino IDE was not used. The software was written directly in C++, using some libraries from […]
Kaari from French General in LA has a special event coming up next Saturday, April 9th. The French General Woad Workshop on April 9th from 9am – 4pm is being taught by Denise Lambert, one of the world’s few master woad dyers who is coming from the South of France to teach this medieval craft. […]
Julie Scelfo from The New York Times writes about woodworking classes that are geared toward a younger set of children, some even as young as five years old. From Brian Cohen, co-founder of Beam Camp: “My partner and I saw that kids were spending too much time interacting with perfect interfaces,” said Mr. Cohen, 45. […]
