Metalab Celebrates its Fifth Anniversary Congratulations to Metalab of Vienna, Austria on their fifth anniversary. They’re in the middle of a week-long mini convention with demos of pinhole photograhy, LED throwies, screen printing, 3D printing, lockpicking, gilding, and lots more. 3taps/Creative Commons Hackathon in San Francisco Meet fellow designers and developers. See how your peers […]
Click to add an event to the online calendar Email me if you know of a call for vendors you’d like to me list here. Coming Up This Weekend: CraftXnw Olympia, WA Apr. 22 Howland Spring Craft Fair Beacon, NY Apr. 23 The Handmade Market Raleigh, NC Apr. 23 Call for Vendors: Craft-In Arts & […]
Milwaukee Makerspace Open House Sounds like Milwaukee Makerspace is coming along, with a sweet new space and a recent open house! Check out these videos to learn more about the organization: Insect Robot Workshop at Xinchexian Shanghai Hackerspace Xinchexian will be holding a Chinese-language insect bot workshop Sunday the 24th from 1-5pm and the event […]
Do you have any idea what “woad” is? Don’t worry, I didn’t either. That is, until I was generously invited to spend a sunny Saturday with about 45 other women at the Woad Workshop produced by Kaari Meng of French General.
I post a list of upcoming craft fairs every week on Craftzine.com, so of course I’m happy when there’s a craft fair in my own neighborhood! My friends Olivia and Meredith organize a really fun event called Shop Party, which is a combination craft fair/art show/concert. This is a quarterly event for crafters and artisans […]
Find the Future Game at the New York Public Library, excellent glimpse of the “Future of Libraries”… Find the Future at NYPL is an augmented reality game by Jane McGonigal that celebrates the 100th birthday of the New York Public Library’s landmark Stephen A. Schwarzman building. Find The Future at NYPL brings visitors to the […]
MAKE’s interview with hardware hacker Akiba highlighted a fascinating trend: individuals and small groups taking their safety into their own hands by creating, modifying, and networking radiation detectors, a.k.a. Geiger counters, rather than relying on governments for information. The following projects and kits aim to put Geiger counters in the hands of ordinary makers. Resources […]
