Is it too soon to start early birding tickets to the Greatest Show (and Tell) On Earth, Maker Faire Bay Area? Definitely not. Between now and March 14th you can buy discounted Maker Faire tickets–but prices go up March 15th.
Got a great invention the world needs to get their hands on? Engadget is offering a hardware talent show of sorts called Insert Coin to help choose tech’s next great gadget. The winner will be chosen by a panel of judges at Expand in San Francisco March 17 and will walk with a $20,000 cash prize and a guaranteed Engadget review. Submissions will be accepted up until Feb. 8 so get busy.
I got to play around with Chris Connors’ Mendocino Motor at Maker Faire New York last year. It consists of magnetically levitating pencils turned into motors with magnets, magnet wire, and 3D-printed joists. The Mendocino Motor floats in its own magnetic field and converts light into electricity and magnetism, which are then converted into the […]
These colorfully embroidered photographs are the whimsical work of artist Jose Ignacio Romussi Murphy.
Open source advocate Catarina Mota spoke at TEDxStockholm about the increasingly cool and important role hackerspaces play in world society. Check it out!
Are you in need of a vacation? Better yet – what about a craft vacation?
On this week’s episode of Food Makers, a Google+ hangout on air, I’ll be talking to Tim Burton, not the director, but the man behind Burton’s Maplewood Farm in Indiana In New England and America’s upper Midwest, the sap is flow in maple trees and that means sugaring season is near. Tim will talk about the craft of maple syrup, the tools of the trade, his sought-after barrel aged syrup, and the upcoming National Maple Syrup Festival. Sounds sweet, doesn’t it? Tune in right here at 2pm PST and 5pm EST.
