Announcements

2009 Parallax Propeller design contest

Parallax announced their 2009 Propeller design contest. The deadline is November 16, 2009, so you still have plenty of time to get your project started. The grand prize is $2000! Projects will be judged according to the following factors: 30% Propeller Design Appropriateness Determined on applicant’s ability to use the Propeller’s unique architecture to achieve […]

Mini Maker Faire Summer Series

MAKE’s most wonderful editorial assistant, Laura Cochrane, has been helping us host a series of Mini Maker Faires this summer. Here she files a little report about last weekend’s event, held at Copperfield’s Books in Petaluma, CA. The video was shot by Brian Rawson for Copperfield’s. – Gareth Last Saturday, I helped out at the […]

Recent tips from MAKE

Recent tips from MAKE

Did you know about our daily tips service, called make_tips? It’s a Twitter account that will send you a tip every day from us here at MAKE (we have one for CRAFT, too), so you can either follow us there or check out the tip each day in the site sidebar. We publish tip submissions, […]

West Michigan Geek-a-Thon

West Michigan Geek-a-Thon

Marie-Claire Camp, of ellohay!, sent us word of this upcoming event: The Geek-a-thon is ellohay! West Michigan’s first annual install-fest. This evening event will bring geeks from all over the area together to help prepare 100 computers to be given away, free of charge, to at-risk and impoverished high school students in Grand Rapids. ellohay! […]