I met Kent Weakley and his son Lucas at Maker Faire this year — a couple of really nice guys who were there a day early with their booster tickets. Lucas helped me put together some of my projects while Kent set out with video camera in hand to capture the sights and sounds of the Faire. A few short days after it was over I got an email from Kent with an amazing video he had cut together. This is a wonderful peek into the world of Maker Faire.
It was definitely hard to overlook Cris Benton at this year’s Bay Area Maker Faire (he was the guy walking around with 29-foot fishing pole). Cris’ carbon fiber fishing-pole-turned-monopod netted some amazing photos of the event and attending crowds – be sure to check them out in his Flickr photoset. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast […]
Etsy crafter goosegrease lets you get super crafty and customize your own wedding cake toppers. The kit comes with 2 brides and 2 grooms in case of mess up, 1 round paint brush, 1 flat brush, 5 paint colors, and 1 pod of varnish, all for under $20. Now you can have truly original toppers […]
If you stopped by our table at the Maker Faire, you got to play around with our big drum demo of the Tactile Metronome. Lots of people had questions about how we drove the solenoid for the drum striker, so we decided to write it up once we got back home.
It’s difficult to grasp how awesome the Raygun Gothic Rocketship is until you actually see it in person and tour its interior. Becky Stern and I did just that at Maker Faire Bay Area, capturing the above seen video along the way. Here’s hoping it helps convey what loving craftmanship when into the rocket’s construction […]
I like to think of ham radio operators as some of the original makers and hackers. They called hacking “kinking,” said “hi hi” instead of “LOL,” and assembled Heathkits long before Makershed, Adafruit, and Sparkfun were around. I had a lot of fun checking out some of the vintage radios at Hamvention in Dayton, Ohio […]
Solar & astrophysics test engineer Hank Hancock saw a comment on our Mini-Trebuchet post about how to improve the throw distance, and put up his hand to try it out. We sent him a kit, he’ll be building and documenting the before-and-after effects of adding wheels to the design.
