Week 1, Tinkering Tuesday at Maker Camp. Learn to make Animated GIFs with Jared Ficklin, of Frog Design Inc.
Maker Camp, sponsored by MAKE magazine, was a virtual summer camp for teens, with a focus on creating, building, and discovering.From July 16th through August 24th, 2012, 30 awesome projects were made in 30 days, on Google+. Maker Camp is free and open to all.
Visit Makezine.com/maker-camp for more information.
Have a little princess at home? Turn a pile of chiffon into a fun, flouncy pettiskirt with this pettiskirt tutorial from Stef at Girl. Inspired. More: How-To: Colorful Yarn Tutu @Craftzine.com blog Peacock Tutu Tutorial @Craftzine.com blog How-To: Sparkle LED Tutu @Craftzine.com blog
The VIRTTEX driving simulator at Ford Today, our campers will be taking their first ever #FieldTripFriday. We’re all going to +Ford Motor Company to take a virtual tour of their Innovation and Research Lab. We will also be joined in the Hangout On Air by the inspiring group of young makers who created +The Viper, […]
Is everyone having fun at Maker Camp? Yesterday Jared Ficklin joined us, showing everyone how to make awesome animated GIFs. In Jared’s words: “The GIF is an image format from the early days of the interweb that was designed to support animation by stringing together multiple images into one compressed format–kind of like stop-motion animation. […]
Maryland young maker Jack Andraka isn’t old enough to drive yet, but he’s just pioneered a new, improved test for diagnosing pancreatic cancer that is 90% accurate, 400 times more sensitive, and 26,000 times less expensive than existing methods. Andraka had gotten interested in pancreatic cancer, and knew that early detection is a challenge. He […]
We hope you got a chance to check out the first day of Maker Camp yesterday. Launching something with that many moving parts, and multiple Web streams, on two coasts, is a challenge, but we’re really happy with how it all turned out, and from the response we’ve gotten, our newly registered virtual campers thought […]
This is really amazing — our Maker Camp is on the google.com page. This is rather unprecedented for Google to put something on their main page that is not a Google property. Kudos to all of those who worked so hard to put this program together, both at Google+ and on the MAKE team. We’re […]
