Josh Rosenstock brought his Nomadic Remix jacket and other projects to the recent Cambridge Mini Maker Faire. His jackets work by recording ambient audio from your surroundings and then chopping the sound up and playing it back through speakers sewn into the collar. You can control the recordings and remixing through sensors on the garment. For more info on josh’s amazing projects, visit his site.
Inhabitat has just launched their annual “Spring Greening” creative reuse contest. There’s a $250 prize for the best example of “clever, creative reuse of old objects or materials that might otherwise be collecting dust.” Deadline is midnight East Coast time on May 3. [Thanks, Mike!]
Maker Faire Bay Area, the world’s largest DIY festival, is right around the corner, taking place at the San Mateo Fairgrounds on May 22nd and 23rd. One of the biggest new projects coming to the Faire this year is the Raygun Gothic Rocketship, pictured above and hand-crafted by a large and dedicated crew. We sent […]
By Julie Jackson I have long been fascinated and impressed by the many talents of Gayla Trail: gardener extraordinaire, photographer, writer, columnist, speaker, veritable font of creativity. You may know Gayla as the creator of the leading online gardening community, You Grow Girl (also the title of her first book). You may know her from […]
Our Save My Oceans contest is well underway, and we’re excited to see all the upcycled projects you’re making for your chance to win an iPad. Are you needing a little inspiration? Let’s revisit Sean’s outlet-mount device charging pocket. He turned a shampoo bottle into hanging charging dock and detailed how to do it in […]
Maker Faire Bay Area, the world’s largest DIY festival, is right around the corner, taking place at the San Mateo Fairgrounds on May 22nd and 23rd. One of the biggest new projects coming to the Faire this year is the Raygun Gothic Rocketship, pictured above and hand-crafted by a large and dedicated crew. We sent […]
Becky’s preliminary robot build. Note the use of a sewing bobbin as an idler wheel. We’re absolutely thrilled with the response we’ve gotten to the Make: Robot Build! The participation on the Forums, Flickr, and on contestants’ personal project blogs has been so inspiring. We’ve heard from a lot of people that this project inspired […]
