Maker Camp Gets an Inside Look at the CERN LHC
Join Maker Camp for Field Trip Friday as they travel to CERN to get an inside peek at the HLC and the CMS Experiment!
Announcements
iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino Author Presenting a Masterclass in London 8 October
Alasdair Allan, author of iOS Sensor Apps with Arduino, is presenting an iOS Sensors and External Hardware Masterclass in London in October: This one day course will guide you through developing location aware applications for the iOS platforms that make use of the onboard sensors: the 3-axis accelerometer, the magnetometer, the gyroscope, the camera and […]
Support Action Kivu
Alissa Carlton, of Handmade by Alissa, checked in with us to let us know about the third annual Action Kivu fundraiser. Action Kivu helps women who are victims of the conflict in Eastern Congo by teaching them to sew at a sewing workshop. Action Kivu also pays for children to go to school. Check out […]
Makey Awards 2012 Nominee 05: Parrot USA, Most Repairable
The Parrot.AR drone teardown on iFixIt saw one of the highest repairability scores that our pals over there have ever awarded. They cite the Parrot.AR’s repair-friendly design, the use of easily demountable fasteners, connectors, and subassemblies, and great repair support from Parrot itself, including readily available replacement parts and a series of how-to-fix it videos on the Parrot.AR site. And while a certain amount of repair-friendly design is just common sense in any R/C aircraft, common sense is not always so common, and even in the R/C market Parrot’s repairability still goes above and beyond the norm.
Call for Vendors: Bazaar Bizarre San Francisco
I love the holiday season for so many reasons and a full list of craft shows across the country is one of them. Our friends at Bazaar Bizarre San Francisco checked in with us recently as they get ready for their holiday show this December. Take a look at some important info, including how to […]
August is Metals Month
Well, what’s left of August is Metals Month, I should say. A broad subject, to be sure, and with only a couple of weeks to explore it, I want to be fairly ruthless about focusing on interesting and unusual metals themselves, and processes for working with them, rather than more general “cool stuff made from metal.”
Maker Camp and Adam Savage, Live Tomorrow 10am PDT
Our online virtual summer camp, Maker Camp, has been getting unprecedented access to places like NASA, NatGeo, and the Smithsonian. Tomorrow is no exception. We will be broadcasting live from Adam Savage’s Man Cave. He will show us his epic setup, and we will ask him all about his life as a maker. This is […]