Maker Birthdays: Benjamin Franklin
Today marks the birthday of Benjamin Franklin, a true Renaissance man.
Crafty Events
Everything I need to know I learned from D&D
Last night I gave a talk at IgniteOKC, Oklahoma City’s part of the Ignite series of talking events, called ‘All I Need to Know About Life I Learned from Dungeons and Dragons.’ I had a ton of fun with it and I think it will be of interest to any fans of roleplaying games in […]
SparkFun Free Day… behind the scenes
We got 104 comments on our SparkFun Free Day aftermath post, several of which were rather… lively. This video shows what went on at SparkFun HQ during Free Day.
World’s biggest disco ball
Seven-and-a-half metres across, with 1,000 mirrors, suspended 50 metres in the air from a crane, and illuminated by spotlights from all over the city of Paris during this year’s annual Nuit Blanche arts festival. The work is La Maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel by French conceptual artist Michel de Broin. [via Dude Craft]
Natalie Jeremijenko – Interactive Architecture: Reinventing Social Spaces @ EXIT ART
Natalie Jeremijenko @ EXIT ART tonight if you’re in NYC. Opening tonight, show is January 9 – February 6, 2010… Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology, the sixth exhibition of the SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics) program, documents and revisits the Waterpod’s five-month voyage around the boroughs of New York. It includes videos, photographs, relics, art works, journal […]
Massimo Banzi’s Tinker Toolkit workshop at Interaction10
Explore the basics of Arduino and get to build cool stuff within the first hour. You’ll experience first hand accelerometers, touch sensors, colour sensors, and a lot more technology without having to spend a month talking about atoms and electrons.
Young Makers
Maker Jon Sarriugarte of Oakland, California raises his daughter Zolle in the air at the 2008 Maker Faire in the Bay Area. At a higher education conference (dgree.org) last week, I met Marie who told me the following story about her young daughter, Annika. “I have a son who is a whiz at math. I’ve […]