Meg Mateo Ilasco is a designer, illustrator, and writer who started her first business in 1999 making handmade wedding invitations. A serial entrepreneur, she’s since launched three businesses, including her housewares, gift, and stationery line, Mateo Ilasco, in 2005. She is the author of several books, including Creative, Inc., Craft, Inc. (check out our Craft […]
Digital Meets Physical will bring makers, software hackers, and DIY geeks together for two days of outrageous fun, using the Netduino platform and other fun toys to build our brains out. We’ll be hacking at the AS220 Labs, a hackerspace where tools, technology and inspiration abound. With no less than 10 top quality watering holes within spitting distance, power breaks and refueling will be top notch.
Congratulations to Joseph, winner of the latest Weekend Projects giveaway. You get a Maker’s Notebook and a Mintronics: Survival Pack (above). The Mintronics pack includes many of the components that we’ve been working with over the past few months in Weekend Projects. And with the notebook, Joseph will be able to jot down his project ideas in the years ahead.
It’s tonight! This episode of Make: Live is our Ultimate Kit Episode, in honor of the new Special Issue of MAKE, The Ultimate Kit Guide. Ariel Churi guest hosts with Matt in Brooklyn NY to show off electronics kits, Michael Schrage talks kitonomics, the interns demo some ballistics kits, and Brookelynn Morris calls in with Becky from MAKE HQ in California to talk craft kits.
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November 5, 2011 is the 66th anniversary of the first FM transmission in 1935 from Yonkers, NY, by Carmen “Randy” Runyon W2XAG. On Saturday, a network of Tesla special event ham radio stations will be on the air helping to raise awareness of the effort to purchase the Wardencyffe laboratory and restore it into a science museum.
Congratulations time! Last week we posted a red scarf project excerpted from the book Craft Activism by Joan Tapper. This post also included a book giveaway, in which 3 lucky winners were randomly chosen from nearly 100 comments. So let’s give a big hand to Tamara Thomas, Sara Davis, and Pete Leih, who will each […]
