Makers

Ralph Baer, Video Games Pioneer, Passed Away at 92

The passing of a maker icon. Ralph Baer, inventor of the first video game console, passed away at the age of 92.

Watch this short film by Erik Wernquist featuring narration by Carl Sagan, including photos and map data of our actual solar system.

Greece-based maker JohnnyQ90 builds engines and tools from scratch in miniature, with some completed projects being as small as a coin.

Late Friday night I saw what may be the future of toys, or at least something completely unique at my local Toys’R’Us.

When the President invites you to his house, you move heaven and earth and an 18-foot robot to get there.

Theremidi Orchestra, an “electro noise ensemble” founded in 2011, plays Theremins and similar electromagnetic instruments.

Rollup, rollup, for the greatest (show) and tell on Earth and the Elephant and Castle mini Maker Faire.