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Imagine grown men and women racing souped-up Power Wheels and similar ride-on children’s toy cars. We’re talking about the Power Racing Series (PPPRS), a hackerspace-centric competition that tests makers’ machining and electronics acumen while encouraging style and moxie.
As I spoke to more makers, it started to become clear that Google+ Hangouts might just be the “next hackerspaces” — not in meat space but in the online world where skill sharing, project sharing, and collaboration can finally happen (more easily). There were are other ways to do this, but Google+ Hangouts seem to be the shiny new toy at the moment.
Quad Cities Co-Lab used GE Color Effects Christmas lights and an Arduino to build their matrix. Also check out this build video.
Red Bull Creation Challenge Ends Red Bull Creation was a cool hacker challenge where hackerspace members and small independent teams competed to build a vehicle that could move 100 pounds from point A to point B, with no fossil fuels permitted. The winners of the competition, 1.21 Jigawatts of Minneapolis, Minn. (represent!) created what was […]
One of my favorite projects of Maker Faire this May was Store Front Music, a wonderful interactive installation that L.A. hackerspace CRASH Space created for the Take On The Machine challenge of 2010 (watch these vidoes for more information: part one and part two). Store Front Music consists of solenoids triggered by ultrasonic sensors, allowing […]
While the hardworking teams in Red Bull Creation build against the clock in north Brooklyn, across town Madagascar Institute is working on a special project for the event all their own– a carnival ride duo of mechanical bulls.
A few of us from MAKE stopped by the build site for the Red Bull Creation event where teams have just 72 hours to kludge together something capable of transporting a human some distance. I just joined the judging panel and it’s exciting to see the teams’ ideas brewing now that the communal junkyard is […]
