Setting Up a Ham Radio Shack
Diana Eng runs through the basics of how to set up a traditional HF amateur radio station at home.
Month: August 2010
Slink-O-Matic machine automates Slinky-play
Jim Sellers (Oregon, WI) built this lovely Slink-O-Matic Slinky-playing machine. Why? Why not? D’uh. It “slinks” a slinky for you, at times when there are no stairs and you just have to… Also useful in determining whether one is in the northern or the southern hemisphere. Due to Coriolis forces it will “slink” from right […]
Steamroller printmaking
Now here’s something you don’t see every day, printmaking using a steamroller as the press. This took place at the Martha Street Studio Steamroller Festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. A few more pictures on their website. Martha Street Studio
Apetechnology at Maker Faire
Did somebody say “creative weirdness?” The “electro mechanical music robot madness” of Apetechnology.
Win Your Own DIY Irrigation System
Join us inside the Automotive Hall of Fame for DIY Drip Garden Irrigation with Jaime Wolfe. Her presentation was so popular yesterday that she’s back again this afternoon at 3 p.m. EST and you can even win your own supplies to get working on your garden at home.
“Lemon Battery” webcam
Alan Languirand has something called Project Lemon Battery set up at Maker Faire Detroit. It’s a solar-powered, 3G-connected webcam on a pole that takes pics every ten seconds and uploads them to a webpage. Project Lemon Battery is part of a larger initiative Alan is involved in to sell “micro real estate” in Detroit to […]
Outbound Faire comments
Photo by Marc de Vinck Here are a few answers to the question “What was your favorite part?” that people posted on our Maker Faire Detroit Facebook page and on Twitter as they left the event. Thanks to everyone who came out and made this such a wonderful and memorable weekend. We hope the event […]