Announcements

New hacker hang out in Seattle

New hacker hang out in Seattle

This Thursday, Oct 15, Metrix Create: Space will open its doors in Seattle (at 623A Broadway East). It’s hackerspace meets an indie coffee house. They’ll have tools and equipment for building projects, 3D fabbing machines, classes on various types of high-tech makery, coffee and snacks. They even have a vending machine that’ll dispense Sun Chips, […]

24-hr Microchip Technology giveaway alpha – GO!

The sponsors of this year’s Halloween contest have sent us a bundle of, er, bundles to give away in the weeks leading up to 31st, and we’re gonna start chucking ’em up in the air pretty fast now. Beginning at noon PST today, and closing at noon PST tomorrow, we will be accepting comments, below, describing the Halloween-y use (or uses) to which you would put the prize bundle consisting of one Microchip Technology PIC10F Cap Touch Demo Board (shown above) and one MCP1650 Multiple White LED Demo Board (shown below). The winner will be announced tomorrow afternoon at the bottom of the comment thread.

Garrett Wade tool winners!

Garrett Wade tool winners!

We’ve done the drawing for the winners of the tools that Garrett Wade so generously provided us with, namely a set of their Extra Heavy Duty Screwdrivers and one of their Push Drills. The winners are: Jonathan Fulton – Who gets the “tank screwdrivers” Matt Kaake – Who wins the push drill Congrats, fellas! Email […]

Ladyada gets EFF Pioneer Award!

Ladyada gets EFF Pioneer Award!

We’re thrilled to announce that MAKE pal, and Advisory Board member, Limor Fried, aka Ladyada, has been honored with an 18th annual EFF Pioneer Award. Well-deserved, we say. Congrats, Limor! Here’s the little bio from the EFF announcement: A pioneer in the field of open-source hardware and software hacking, Ladyada helps the general public engineer […]

Fascination:  Bruce Hood

Fascination: Bruce Hood

Are you one of the nine out of ten adults who purportedly believes you can tell when someone is watching you from behind? If so, does it occur to you that this is a kind of supernatural belief? Dr. Bruce Hood, Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre at the University of Bristol and the latest subject of our ongoing series of interviews with notable Makers, has some fascinating theories about how such “routine” supernatural beliefs come about as natural consequences of the normal psychology of child development. He also talks briefly about how his own childhood enthusiasm for the paranormal eventually came full circle in his mature scientific interest in the psychology of paranormal belief. Fascinating stuff.