Month: March 2010

Recipe: Enchiladas Verdes de Jocoque

My mother turned the entire family onto this particular flavor of green chile enchiladas several years ago. Being from New Mexico, we’ll try anything that has real green chile or red chile sauce in, on, or around it. The sour cream (Jocoque is a sour-cream-ish product in Mexico) and sharp cheddar combined with the fiery […]

FIRST Robotics expo NYC

FIRST Robotics expo NYC

MAKE is at the FIRST Robotics expo at the Javits Center in NYC for the NY/NJ regionals. Check out my Flickr set for some of the robot action! The New York City / New Jersey FIRST  is a regional office of FIRST, the 501c3 nonprofit organization created to inspire youth to pursue further studies and careers […]

Firefly Workshop

Firefly Workshop

While I love a good, messy workshop, I appreciate a clean one if only to get tips on organizing my own space. Craig and Cindy Smith’s shop, which they call the Firefly Workshop, offers some neat tricks. Also, what’s up with the astromech dome and Wall-E eyes? I am not a ‘green freak’, but I […]

The Sandpit: a tilt-shift movie

You’ve heard of tilt-shift photography, right — pix shot with a special lens that makes everything look like little models. Well, check out Sam O’Hara’s The Sandpit, an awesome tilt-shift movie of a day in the life of New York City! [via Kottke] More: DIY tilt-shift lens Weekend Project: Tilt-Shift Photography HOW TO – Make […]