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What IF…Festival of Innovation and Imagination

What IF…Festival of Innovation and Imagination

By McKenna Lovejoy

McKenna Lovejoy

I am an engineer, a student, a teacher, a maker, and a mom with awesome maker kids. We love to make all sorts of things and just started a blog to help us keep track.

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What IF… Festival: Don’t miss the geeky gadgets, DIY demos, cool experiments, new technologies, hands-on learning, and live performances! September 7th, 10am-4pm in Colorado Springs, CO.

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How-To: Hand-Lettering on a Balloon

How-To: Hand-Lettering on a Balloon

By Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

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I love the classic feel of hand-lettered signs and decorations, don’t you? Bring a bit of that old time-y whimsey to your next party with a hand-lettered balloon!

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Raspberry Pi in the Sky!

Raspberry Pi in the Sky!

By kevino

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PublicLaboratory is a fantastic citizen scientist organization with really useful projects like DIY spectrometers (for finding out what’s really in stuff) and aerial mapping for monitoring of oil spills, landfills, etc. They’ve done some fantastic work using the continuous shooting mode of consumer cameras, including converting them to near infrared. The problem is that there is […]

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How-To: Make a Chocolate Bowl Using a Balloon

How-To: Make a Chocolate Bowl Using a Balloon

By Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. His free weekly-ish maker tips newsletter can be found at garstipsandtools.com.

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Oh, heck yeah! [Spotted on Facebook]

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Romanian Teenager Puts Space Shuttle Back in Space

Romanian Teenager Puts Space Shuttle Back in Space

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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On January 5, 2012, Raul Oaida posted the following update to his blog: “On the 31st of December I launched the Black Sky project payload with two HD cameras. I recovered the rig ~240km awaydownrange (320km on the highway) in excellent condition from a hill in a remote area.” About a month later, he posted the embedded video to YouTube. The entry on his blog from that date kinda says it all: “This was all done by me.”

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“Elastic Park” Balloon Art Dinosaurs

“Elastic Park” Balloon Art Dinosaurs

By Sean Michael Ragan

Sean Michael Ragan

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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Although I must admit having had my fill of awkward “origami” portmanteaux, there is no denying that balloon artist Larry Moss and his team of talented “Airigami” designers and sculptors are producing some pretty amazing work.

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