Here are some of the events scheduled for Saturday at Maker Faire Detroit at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, MI. Saturday’s hours are 9:30 am to 8pm. For a complete schedule and links for more information, see the full event schedule. ANDERSON THEATER (IN MUSEUM) CAR TALKS – 10:30AM-12:00PM • Moving Toward a New Era […]
Time-lapse video of an ant colony inside of a scanner via LS.
To get things started for Maker Faire Detroit, we gathered in Shed 3 at Eastern Market for an impromptu conference, calling all makers, crafters, thinkers, etc. From learning what business opportunities there are for the up-and-coming maker, to an all-local lunch from Detroit Evolution and meeting Lee Zlotoff, the creator of “MacGyver,” (!!!!!!!), it was […]
Our very own Brookelynn was waaaaayyy more relaxed then I was when she met a cockroach from one of the Detroit Maker Faire exhibitors at Can Do Camp. I stayed on the protective side of my camera just to be safe. We crafters are pretty gutsy (well, Brookelynn is!).
Uh-oh, better get Maaco. The Life-Size Mousetrap mice warm up on the family minivan. The head mouse tells us that the official show schedule for the weekend will be: Sat: 11:30, 1:30, 2:30, 5:30, 7:30 Sun: 11:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:30 Bring the family to see this! BTW: If you’re coming to the Faire, or just […]
Via Gadget Lab: Martin Magnusson of Linköping, Sweden, created this excellent wearable computer. It consists of the foliowing components: a pair of Myvu Crystal video glasses hacked into a monocular head-mounted display, the Beagleboard single-board computer running Angstrom Linux, a Plexgear mini USB hub driving a bluetooth adapter and powering the Beagleboard and the display, […]
Lately I’ve been hanging out with a friend who is really into crop circles. So today I was thinking about crop circles, and then my mind went back to crafts, and then back to crop circles … And I made a delightful discovery – this sweet crop circle quilt, made by Jaime Kuli McIntosh (Georgetown, […]
