For those of you eager to boast about your maker prowess, but haven’t yet tried Make: Projects, I encourage you to take a look at this video to introduce you to what the site is all about and how it works. Make: Projects is a constantly growing cookbook for makers, so even if you’re only […]
Frits Lyneborg is back in his workshop in Denmark, with his guest this week: Andrew “ignoblegnome” from New Jersey. The show is revealing great news for fans of The Yellow Drum Machine (tutorial in June’s upcoming MAKE Volume 27), and a look at a Matrix-inspired version of “The leave me alone box”. Links related to […]
Maker Faire Education Day is opportunity for schools from near and far to bring their students to a sneak preview of Maker Faire. Some of our most engaging makers hosted 1600 kids and everyone had an amazing time. The students roamed from exhibit to exhibit learning about physics, chemistry, and technology. They interacted with electronic […]
The Arduino from the Maker Shed is an open source physical computing platform based on a simple microcontroller board and a development environment for writing software for the board. The Uno is the latest in a series of USB Arduino boards. Comes fully assembled, just add a USB cable and join the revolution!
As someone who’s witnessed the entire process of setting up, staffing, and breaking down the Sheds at most of our Faires, I can attest to the fact that it’s an absolutely staggering amount of effort — endless grunt work, logistics, stocking and merchandising, shipping and receiving, point of sales, product demoing, and on and on and on. And the fact that it’s all done by a relatively small number of staff people (and a platoon of precious volunteers) is equally impressive.
Make: Live episode 09 was broadcasted from the grounds of Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Thanks to our guests David Farish, Sung Kim, Jimmie Rodgers, Tero Karvinen, Kimmo Karvinen, Lindsay Lawlor, Gerard Nebesky, and our special guest host, Super Awesome Sylvia. Catch up on video and notes from the show here. Subscribe to the MAKE […]
In this short welcoming video about Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, Dale Dougherty shares the true spirit of Maker Faire: play and exploration. It is but a preview of the 100 maker profile videos we will release over the next 100 days. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or […]
