SoOnCon 2010 is the Southern Ontario Hackerspaces & Makers Mini-Conference. The Friday night festivities begin with a catered reception for registered participants and a cash bar. Registered Participants are free to bring a guest for an additional $20 at the door. Saturday is an all-day event with a keynote speaker, talks, demonstrations, workshops, and projects! […]
On my radar this week is Marc Newson’s show at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea. Newson approaches design as an experimental exercise in extreme structure and advanced technologies, combined with a highly tactile and exacting exploration of materials, processes, and skills. As an industrial designer, his reach is broad and diverse, from concept jets and cars […]
It’s been just over a month since this year’s RI Mini Maker Faire, but only a couple weeks since we decided to do it all over again with another RI Mini Maker Faire at the BIF-6 conference in Providence, RI. Here are some videos, posts, and pictures from Mini Maker Faire RI. If you have more, please post them in the comments!
Gever Tulley, co-author of 50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do) and founder of the Tinkering School will be giving a talk tonight at Parsons the New School for Design in NYC, so if you missed him at Maker Faire, here’s your chance! A self-taught computer scientist who holds multiple technology patents, Gever’s […]
Photograph by sassymonkeymedia It’s always fun anticipating what might be hitting the tracks at the Great Handcar Regatta, Santa Rosa, California’s throwback celebration of ingenuity, sportsmanship, and general hilarious mayhem. We love Handcar Regatta because it’s right up our alley and in our backyard to boot. This year, MAKE is presenting the prestigious Make: Spectacular […]
One of the events we are looking forward to at World Maker Faire NY this weekend is Diana Eng’s Technology Fashion Show, scheduled for 2 p.m. in the Great Hall. Naturally, Diana is incredibly busy getting ready to dazzle us, but she took a few minutes to share some insight with us, including how she […]
http://www.vimby.com/swf/media/VideoPlayerAS3.swf This looks fun! I don’t know how they got Scion to sign on, but it’s smart money — and it shows how big the hackerspace phenomenon is getting.
