Announcements

California DIY on KQED

California DIY on KQED

Manhattan-based radio reporter and podcast producer Jon Kalish has a story about DIY’ers in northern California airing on The California Report, tomorrow on KQED. (It will also be broadcast on many public radio stations around the state). On KQED, the show can be heard at 4:30pm, 6:30pm, and 11:00pm. And, I assume it can also […]

Make: television at Maker Faire

Make: television at Maker Faire

In addition to the hundreds of talented makers at this weekend’s Maker Faire, Make: television will be live, featuring… The Make: television Stage Meet the makers who appear on the first season, as well as presentations and discussions from MAKE authors and bloggers. All day, Saturday and Sunday, in Expo Hall. Projects built during the […]

Helping to support Maker Faire Africa

Helping to support Maker Faire Africa

As we’ve mentioned here before, Maker Faire Africa is an unofficial Maker Faire (that we’ve given our blessing to). It’s taking place on August 13-15 at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT in Accra, Ghana. Our pals over at Afrigadget and Afromusing are trying to get people to spread the word on […]

Week in tweets

We’ve entered the last week of our “Book-a-Day in May” contest to give away five free Maker’s Notebooks and an Arduino MEGA to people who sign up on @make to follow us. This past week’s Notebook winners were: @jakekooser @davidparmet @MpressMarcy @paperbullet @lilredv1 Winner of the Arduino MEGA is: @informative Congrats to the winners. Direct […]

Happy Memorial Day!

Happy Memorial Day! We hope our readers in the U.S. are enjoying the day off and are looking forward to your picnics in the park or barbecues in the backyard. Here’s a quick recipe from Martha Stewart for a fruit pie with crumb topping that’s a cinch to make as a last minute dessert for […]

Open developers conference

Open developers conference

Registration is now open for CommunityOne West, June 1-3, 2009, San Francisco. Get up to speed on dozens of free and open-source projects driving innovation in cloud computing, Web application development, social and collaborative technologies, and more. The main conference on Monday, June 1, is free, but space is limited. Deep Dive tutorials on Tuesday, […]