Breeze is an incredible marquetry artist. A few years ago, he stayed with us while showing his work at the Duxbury Art Association. My mother saw his work and commissioned a custom designed table inspired by her photos of Costa Rica. T. Breeze VerDant…started his woodworking experience by building a log cabin from his own […]
San Francisco underground icon (literally) John Law will be appearing on the History Channel’s Cities of the Underworld. Scott Beale writes on Laughing Squid: Laughing Squid’s own head of special projects John Law will be featured tonight and tomorrow on The History Channel show “Cities of the Underworld” hosted by Don Wildmon, a series where […]
Creating a Maker Course In the next month or so I will have a semester change, and with it an opportunity to restructure the sequence of three courses. Robotics, Building and Repairing Computers and Web Design are three classes that I have taught before, and am looking to streamline the content of the courses. The […]
During a quiet moment on Sunday afternoon at Maker Faire Austin 2008, I had a nice conversation with Mitch Altman. At the end of a very busy weekend, he was pretty beat, but I was struck with what a wonderful and peaceful guy Mitch is. Mitch Altman creates kits that inspire people to make things. […]
Even as I type this, the inky pages of our forthcoming Make: Books title, The Best of Instructables, are fluming their way through giant printing presses. Having been a printer for many years, I can hear the sounds and smell the ink from here. The book will be released at Maker Faire Austin, Oct 18th […]
Hot off our inboxes, from Mikey: We are driving to the Austin Maker Faire from the SoCal area. We’re planning on taking our time on the drive there — I was wondering if there’s anyway I can ask the blog.makezine.com collective intelligence to suggest some places to stop at along the way that would be […]
Mister Jalopy of Dinosaurs and Robots points us to the amazing automata and kinetic sculptures of Tom Haney (Atlanta, GA).
