(shown above: the RFID project we’ll be using in Tom Igoe’s Hands-On RFID for Makers workshop) RFID’s are associated with credit cards, passports and inventory systems. However, they can also be used to add a proximity interaction to a service like entering a subway via a passkey (Jan Chipchase has several posts describing these interactions […]
For those of you in the NYC area, check out this panel of great people talking about art, craft and design! Faythe Levine and Cortney Heimerl, Co-Authors of “Handmade Nation,” join American Craft Editor-in-Chief Andrew Wagner and KnitKnit’s Sabrina Gschwandtner from 7-9pm, February 11, 2009 at Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn. rsvp@powerhousearena.com
Make: SF is hosting it’s downtown meeting at Instructables HQ on Tuesday, February 10. Join them and bring a project to show and tell or just enjoy the pizza! The group is charging $5 for attendance to help cover web hosting and other costs, including aforementioned pizza.
Boston area benders and builders be aware – Noise Night is happening on the 12th and 26th of this month @ Willoughby & Baltic – even if that little octopus [see above] complains! The ongoing event now has its own Flickr and YouTube groups. Jimmie P posted a sampling of noise jamming that went down […]
MAKE subscriber Sara writes in about this year’s Kinetica Art Fair in London: Carnivorous lampshades, pole dancing robots, man-animal-machine hybrids, mechanical writing machines, subliminal and sensitive installations, mesmerising light sculptures and cybernetics are just some of the incredible exhibits at Kinetica Art Fair, the UK’s first art fair dedicated to kinetic, robotic, sound, light and […]
Here are my photos from the NYC Comic con 2009… I’ll be doing individual posts later, for now enjoy the show!
Prototype This, the short-lived engineering show on Discovery Channel that offered a view into the real-life process of designing and building unique prototypes has completed filming and the production company is liquidating the warehouse on Treasure Island in San Francisco. They’re holding a yardsale on Sunday, February 8, from 11am to 3pm and will have […]
