By Kris Magri, engineering intern Thanks again to everyone who entered the Alex Rider Dream Gadget Contest! As promised, our team at Make: Labs has built the winning gadget: the super-stealth Listening Cup designed by Grand Prize winner Nic. Check it out! Amid a raft of great entries that were extremely creative, the Listening Cup […]
CDM sends word of a call for works utilizing the simplest of all interfaces – CALL FOR WORKS – KOKOROMI’S ONE-BUTTON GAME OBJECTS DEADLINE: MARCH 1 (receipt) What can you do with one button? In an age of ever-more-complex touch interfaces, we’d like to imagine what a single, tangible, hardware button can mean for a […]
Hi Crafters! We are so excited to bring you Makers Market, a collaboration by MAKE and Boing Boing. Makers Market is a curated marketplace of wonderful science, tech and artistic creations created and sold directly by some of our favorite makers from around the world. Dive in and shop for arts + crafts, kits, jewelry, […]
If you’ve been following our exploits closely in the last year or so, you’ve likely caught wind of us working feverishly on something called Makers Market. After lots of heavy lifting and obsessive constructing, arranging, merchandising, and labeling, we’re ready to throw open the gates and show off our little marketplace. We think of it […]
HacDC’s (Washington DC’s premier hackerspace) next Lightning Talks evening will feature an eclectic lineup of a dozen five-minute talks on anything and everything that’s pressing on the minds of today’s thinkers and tinkerers, from rapid boat construction to innovative DIY manufacturing. The talks run about 90 minutes total. There are currently several speaker slots still […]
Thanks to Extech for giving away all this swag! And it keeps getting better. Not only was the RC100 upgraded to a RC200, but there are TEN of them now, and TEN pen-style multimeters! Hot dog! Still only one EX540, however. (winners after the jump)EX540 winner karmakurma is our winner. While leaving a cool comment […]
Hi Crafters! We’ve done some updating to our commenting guidelines on the site and wanted to share them with all of you. Starting today you’ll see this message before the submit button on a comment. CRAFT has a “be nice” commenting policy. Don’t say anything here you wouldn’t say to a person’s face. We will […]
