Here are some photos from Saturday’s EurekaFest activities. More than 200 high school inventors were blown away during the finale of EurekaFest, a multi-day celebration of the inventive spirit presented by the Lemelson-MIT Program. In teams, the students competed in a “heavy metal” lift-off at the Museum of Science, Boston, to build a wind turbine […]
Jason writes– You may have dug the videos of past DEFCON conferences that we posted back in May, but there’s a whole other infosec conference, Shmoocon, which is held in D.C. every February. It’s a while until the next conference comes up, but there have been some great presentations at past conferences, most of which […]
The entire schedule for The Last HOPE conference – Final schedule for The Last HOPE – NYC July 18 to July 20, 2008 is up in a variety of formats. The talks span three full days using three tracks. In addition, there will be a special fourth track for unscheduled talks that people can sign […]
Susan Clausen of AS220 made this amazing target for LED throwies. It’s made of sheet metal, but she also put some audio pickups on the back and ran it through an effects pedal and into an amplifier. It made for some extremely satisfying tosses. The video shows the throwie wall in action at the 2008 […]
Last Saturday, Boston’s award-winning eco-boutique Greenward hosted a release party for CRAFT: 07 with the help of The Sampler. It was a smashing success, with partygoers stitching up cute CRAFT-inspired shoe clips and brooches all day long. Check out the CRAFT Release Parties Flickr pool for photos from this fun event–and if you’re in Detroit […]
The AS220 Fools Ball (MAKE is a sponsor) is happening tonight, Saturday June 28, at 8pm: 115 Empire Street, Providence, Rhode Island. My friend Kipp Bradford and I have been working on a Socialbomb-inspired wearable game, and we’ll have a few gamepieces at the Fools Ball. The Fools Brd is designed to be a flexible […]
Heads up, Angelenos! Tomorrow in Venice, there’s a great Swap-o-Rama-Rama event happening and I’ll be on hand to help out! Come by with a bag of your unwanted clothes and leave with a spanking-new customized outfit. There will be sewing stations galore, DIY silkscreening, applique and embroidery stations and much more. I’m even bringing a […]
