Vancouver Mini Maker Faire: The Greenest of All?
How do you mobilize a community to go green?
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Make a Duct Tape Electric Rose
A rose is a rose, unless it’s duct tape, electric LED rose.
Tim Hunkin: Illustrator, Engineer, Cartoonist, and Maker
In his presentation at the the Elephant & Castle Mini Maker Faire last month, Tim Hunkin, an illustrator, engineer, and cartoonist, talked about the homemade amusement arcade he has built over the past 15 years and his work at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. It’s a great talk. Have a look.
A Maker Wedding
Software developer Phil Tucker of Toronto went all out for his wedding, creating some awesome personalized projects: rustic Edison-style hanging light fixtures, an animated Arduino LED matrix lounge table top, vinyl “flexi” record wedding invitations (complete with a lovely acoustic song the couple wrote themselves, called “Invited”), and even a bachelor party wireless accelerometer Stab-O-Meter, named after the Futurama character Roberto, the stabbing robot.
Why the Maker Movement is Here to Stay
There seems to be a bit of confusion lately about the Maker Movement. Is it just about DIY elecctronics, and therefore doomed to fade with the whims of fickle customers? Or is there something more going on?
“The Curiosity is There:” Interview with Vincent Lai from the Fixers Collective
Vincent Lai from the Fixers Collective talks with MAKE about material literacy and competency mending, tinkering, and fixing broken objects in our lives!
China’s First Maker Faire This Sunday in Shenzhen
Eric Pan, the founder and CEO of Seeed Technology and co-founder of Chaihuo makerspace, describes himself an Open Source Hardware Facilitato. Not surprising, then, that he’s the person behind the first Maker Faire in China, this Saturday’s Shenzhen Mini Maker Faire.
