Stop-motion phone bending
Madnoodler presents his process for circuit bending a toy cellular – in animated framey-goodness! Nice to see he brushed up on the basics before jumping in. [via GetLoFi]
Month: November 2008
ACTLab: making the University of Texas make things
Joey Lopez and Brandon Wiley were kind enough to let me pick their brains about ACTLab, an interdisciplinary program at the University of Texas focused on the intersection of technology, culture, and art: Dorkbot/Make interviews ACTLab from jl on Vimeo. Video editing by Joey Lopez If you’re in Austin, check out their space this Wednesday […]
Best of Maker Faire: Tumblewagon family adventure
I understand Maker Faire Austin is done and gone, but I’m still thinking about how much fun it was. Over the next week or 2, I’ll continue to share some highlights from the most make-tastic event Austin’s ever seen. Here’s the Swartz family’s adventure at Maker Faire: Part of a much larger, continent-wide adventure; check […]
The Electronic Wasteland – Where electronics end up…
Horrible, gang – we need to work towards changing this… reuse and recycle locally, the video hits hard – “Where do the millions of computer monitors, cell phones and other electronic refuse our society generates end up? Scott Pelley reports.” 60 minutes & more. 60 Minutes is going to take you to one of the […]
SlugPower – Linux controlled power switch
Phil Endecott has done a bit of hacking with the Linksys NSLU2 “Slug”, the low-power network storage device which runs Linux under the hood. His SlugPower project is a switched outlet that can be controlled from the Slug. This enables his print server to power up the printer when it needs to be printing, and […]
Austin bike zoo’s moving stage
Lest anyone think that Austin Bike Zoo is taking a break after Maker Faire, here’s some footage of them at a Halloween ride: Austin Texas Critical Mass 31 October 2008 from kevin on Vimeo. (via Austin Texas Bike stuff)
Best of Maker Faire: Maker’s Notebook mod-a-rama
I understand Maker Faire Austin is done and gone, but I’m still thinking about how much fun it was. Over the next week or 2, I’ll continue to share some highlights from the most make-tastic event Austin’s ever seen. Courtesy of Chris Connors, here’s Steve Davee at Maker Faire Austin explaining some of his many […]