Crafty Events

Hacky B-day, NYCResistor!

Hacky B-day, NYCResistor!

Brooklyn-based hacker group NYCResistor is currently celebrating its status of one year oldness – Happy day to you NYCR! Thanks for all the sweet projects you churn out. Keeping a group like that running can be a unique challenge, especially in the big, busy (and expensive) city – A year ago, NYCResistor was conceived by […]

Knockout Knickers Workshop in London

Mary Beth writes in about this workshop at the Make Lounge on making fancy panties! From the site: Tired of boring high street knickers? Sew your own instead! In this workshop, you’ll make a pair of thongs, briefs or boy shorts (your choice), plus take home patterns and instructions to stitch the others! You’ll learn […]

Dorkbot Austin: This Thursday!

Dorkbot Austin: This Thursday!

Dorkbot Austin #16 is this Thursday, and it’s full of steampunk wearable robotic wonders: Jason Delaney’s steampunk (literally) homebrew still that can be used to make alcohol, herbal oils, purify water, etc. Chase Hammock’s touchscreen driven wearable multimedia computer Adam Iseman’s Ard-e, a sub-$100 robotics platform (Image courtesy Adrian Ward) We’re at Cafe Mundi, 8pm […]

A truck grows in Sacramento

A truck grows in Sacramento

MAKE Editor and Publisher Dale Dougherty writes from the California State Fair: Here is one of my favorite sights, a “green” truck in the Farm area. It’s an old truck covered in grass with vegetables and flowers growing in the flat bed. Talk about a raised bed! Think how the yards of rural America could […]

Austin Event: Space Squid Party

Austin Event: Space Squid Party

Like science fiction of a humorous bend? Or, just curious what bold zine could claim to be “Earth’s least established publication of fine sci-fi and humor?” Space Squid is releasing issue 5 and throwing a free soiree tonight: SATURDAY, AUGUST 16th, 5pm-7pm, BIKINIS SPORTS BAR A big SPACE SQUID party! For the biggest SPACE SQUID […]