Beer is awesome. Besides being deliciously inebriating, beer offers a wide range of crafting potential! The caps can be collected and turned into jewelry. The bottles can be recycled into vases, lamps and even glasses for drinking beer. The cardboard from the case even has infinite possibilities. Even the labels can be reused, say, to […]
The nominations are closed! The polls are open! Tell your friends, family, and co-workers! Come one, come all, and vote to determine which of our twelve nominees will receive the first ever MAKE Magazine Industry Maker Awards at Maker Faire New York on September 18!
East Bay Mini Maker Faire Call for Makers is open now through September 1, 2011. Makers, hackers, tinkerers, crafters, performers, workshop leaders, and artists of all ages from the eastern San Francisco Bay Area should get their application in now to participate in this 2nd annual East Bay Mini Maker Faire on Sunday, October 16th.
Thinking about showing off your cool Android-based project at the Android Open Mini Maker Faire? O’Reilly’s Android Open conference is being held from October 9-11 in San Francisco. If your project is selected for the Mini Maker Faire, you’ll get a free conference pass so you can attend the rest of the conference.
FAB7 is the annual international Fab Lab event which gathers field practitioners and laboratory researchers from the Fab Lab network and beyond, for a week of hands-on workshops and a one day academic symposium on the principles and applications of digital fabrication. Marc de Vinck, MAKE’s Director of Product Development, will be speaking in the Applications track about Maker Shed and what works for us: open source hardware, kits that help makers get started with stuff they’re interested in, and more.
Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at @johnbaichtal and I’ll post it. Also feel free to subscribe to my hackerspaces Twitter list. Hackerspace Happenings run weekly(ish) Tuesdays, and the next one will come out August 23rd. Pittsburgh Mini Maker Faire — Call […]
Now in its seventh year, the BIF Summit has earned it reputation as “one of the top 7 places to watch great minds in action” (according to Mashable). The summit provides participants with the space to be curious and crazy, get inspired, and collide with unusual collaborators. A shoe designer learns innovation processes from a car designer. A police officer teaches a business guru about transforming industries.
