I was about five pages in when I discovered a major obstacle: I didn’t have any of the tools the book required to do the suggested projects and experiments. I realized that despite my commitment to learning and my eagerness to get started, my goal of going from Zero to Maker would be impossible if I didn’t have the right tools.
Broadcasting shortly! Make: Live travels to our mothership, the MAKE headquarters in Sebastopol, CA. Intern Dan Spangler shows off his combustion cannon and launches a soda can and tennis ball across the back yard, and Max Heald shows us his in-progress electric wheelchair robot. Brookelynn Morris shows us her LED hula hoop and puts the staff to the hula challenge. Get a tour of the lab from Nick Raymond and meet more folks who make the magazine and projects you love.
Make: Live airs tonight! Ep15 is live from MAKE HQ in Sebastopol, CA.
Maker Robert Baruch posted this fun little ditty on Google+, the “Maker’s Bill of Rights” in Latin, because everything sounds cooler in Latin.
Starting in 1995, Frank Kovac took ten years constructing amechanical globe planetarium of his own design despite having no prior engineering experience. The Kovac Planetarium in Monico Wisconsin is only the fourth of its kind ever built as well as being the largest in history at 4000 pounds and 22 feet in diameter.
Highlights from the Flickr pool this week include a striking Yoda head (printed in neon green, it is), some great sci-fi prop armor, and the most beautifully painted set of rocks I’ve ever seen. Check it out!
As a first step on my journey from “Zero to Maker,” I spent a lot of time thinking about who I was going to spending time with, and more importantly, how I was going to convince them to let me hang out! After a cursory search for people to meet in my area (San Francisco), many of the signs pointed to Make: SF, a monthly Meetup group that offers, in their own words, “an opportunity to get started in the maker community. You can meet local makers, learn some new skills and grow from there.”
