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Challenge Accepted: Try to Hit this Unnecessarily High Five

Challenge Accepted: Try to Hit this Unnecessarily High Five

Mike Senese

By Mike Senese

Mike Senese

Mike Senese is a content producer with a focus on technology, science, and engineering. He served as Executive Editor of Make: magazine for nearly a decade, and previously was a senior editor at Wired. Mike has also starred in engineering and science shows for Discovery Channel, including Punkin Chunkin, How Stuff Works, and Catch It Keep It.

An avid maker, Mike spends his spare time tinkering with electronics, fixing cars, and attempting to cook the perfect pizza. You might spot him at his local skatepark in the SF Bay Area.

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Jason Haber of the Irresponsible Dads of Alameda has put together an interactive art piece called Unnecessarily High Five. The inspiration for the piece came from the seemingly-irresistible need for people to give high fives. “We thought “why not make a device that challenges you to give your highest five,’” Haber said. From there the group […]

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Behind the Scenes: The Build at Burning Man

Behind the Scenes: The Build at Burning Man

By Sabrina Merlo

Sabrina Merlo

Sabrina is the Maker Faire Program Director. She works on stage content for the flagship fairs (Bay Area & New York), and also runs Maker Faire's global licensing program for locally and independently produced Maker Faires. She also co-creates the East Bay Mini Maker Faire in her town, Oakland, CA.

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[Slideshow] Before the rain, before the gates opened, 10,000+ makers were already in residence on the Black Rock desert, building big art together.

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Makers on the Playa

Makers on the Playa

By Goli Mohammadi

Goli Mohammadi

I'm a word nerd who loves to geek out on how emerging technology affects the lexicon. I was an editor on the first 40 volumes of MAKE, and I love shining light on the incredible makers in our community. In particular, covering art is my passion — after all, art is the first thing most of us ever made. When not fawning over perfect word choices, I can be found on the nearest mountain, looking for untouched powder fields and ideal alpine lakes.

Contact me at snowgoli@gmail.com or via @snowgoli.

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Check out 16 installations from Burning Man that have been to Maker Faire.

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American Steel: Making on a Large Scale

American Steel: Making on a Large Scale

By Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook is editor of the Bohemian, an alternative weekly in Santa Rosa, California. He is a former senior editor at Maker Media.

He is also the co-creator of Food Forward, a documentary TV series for PBS about the innovators and pioneers changing our food system.

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American Steel Studios is unique in the U.S. because its size, cheap rent, and those giant cranes. Industrial scale artists and designers from across the United States come there to make big stuff. Here are some pictures of what I saw.

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Charon Brought to Life Via Human-Powered Zoetrope

Charon Brought to Life Via Human-Powered Zoetrope

By Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook is editor of the Bohemian, an alternative weekly in Santa Rosa, California. He is a former senior editor at Maker Media.

He is also the co-creator of Food Forward, a documentary TV series for PBS about the innovators and pioneers changing our food system.

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Charon was the mythological boatman who ferried the souls of the recently departed across the river Styx to the afterlife. Artist Peter Hudson and a huge team of volunteers worked for six months to create an interactive version of Charon for Burning Man last year. The project took over 5,000 hours and 100 people to […]

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