Reminder! MakePhilly is today! – The next meeting of MakePhilly (http://www.makephilly.com) will feature guest speaker Don Miller (also known as NO CARRIER) who creates fast paced, colorful visuals for live music events and interactive art installations by hacking 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) consoles with custom programmed cartridges. Don will share his DIY approach to […]
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-2385134211642243&hl=en http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-764443478703123180&hl=en We didn’t get a chance to finish our LED Cubes at the Make: DC/Dorkbot DC workshop in the two short hours we had, so folks have been finishing them at home. Here’s a couple of vids of Mark Boszko’s test out his cube. He also includes the Arduino code with his animation sequences. […]
The next Make:NYC Meeting 3 is Thursday, January 31st, 6:00PM – Back from holiday shenanigans and even feistier than before! Make:NYC is gonna turn up the heat this winter. The fourth Make:NYC Meeting includes: Seminar: Mastering Pipe Mechanics and Assembly (6PM) This seminar covers using home improvement store variety pipe and fittings to incorporate into […]
The first Dorkbot DC/Make: DC project event was held on Wednesday at the Marian Koshland Science Museum in Northwest DC. This was the inaugural meeting of Make: DC, a projects building group inspired by MAKE magazine. We’ll be doing a series of joint Dorkbot/Make: DC events in the future. For this first event, we made […]
REMINDER: MAKE will have a booth @ the Greener Gadgets conferece – February 1, 2008 New York City. MAKE readers get a 25% discount (use code MAKE25discount) – On February 1st, 2008 in New York City industry leaders, entrepreneurs, journalists, and designers will gather to discuss the business case for the greening of the consumer […]
Douglas writes in to tell us about this inspiring panel discussion to be held at my alma mater, The New School. From the site: Many contemporary artists are using craft to make diverse and timely political statements. Because creating crafts is so often social and communal, they can play a vital role in the public […]
Our pal, and MAKE contributor, Xeni Jardin posted the following on Boing Boing: Each year, a string of Yuri’s Night World Space Parties around the globe celebrate humankind’s first foray into space. That first human was Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, on April 12, 1961. The events are a lot of fun (I hosted one in […]
