You need to install Adobe Flash Player, or use an HTML5 browser that supports H.264 video. In this episode of Spine TV’s Into The World Of…, they visit the studio/workshop of sound sculptor and musician Henry Dagg (Faversham, Kent, England) who hand-built a beautiful pin-barrel harp commissioned by the English Folk Dance and Song Society. […]
MAKE subscriber Matt, from New Jersey, sent us the above photo with the subject “My Daughter Gets Me” and the message “Not a hack, not a build, just a very proud geek father.” Indeed. But now you have to make something cool out it, Matt!
This video, posted today on the OCD (hackerspace) blog, made me laugh. And Michael Doyle’s (of OCD) Facebook post made me laugh even harder: If the most recent post isn’t among the weirdest things you’ve seen, either OMNICORPDETROIT isn’t doing its job, or we’d love to meet you. Um… I think you’re doing your job. […]
Our friends at the New York Hall of Science are going to be launching pumpkins this weekend with their in-house trebuchet “Chuck”: See NYSCI’s 20-foot-tall outdoor catapult in action! Learn about the history and science of catapults, and then watch it hurl pumpkins across the field. The demonstration will show how adjustments on the catapult […]
More hackerspace goodness from “Take on the Machine” — this time, LA’s Crash Space (the top two videos) and Boston’s Artisan’s Asylum step up to the plate. More: Take on the Machine: A hackerspace challenge Take on the Machine, Part 2 Take on the Machine continues with NYCR, part 2 Take on the Machine visits […]
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of doing a guest residency at the University of Illinois — Urbana-Champaign. Several of the people who came to my talks were from Makerspace Urbana, a local maker/hacker group. One day, I gave a luncheon talk at the School for Designing a New Society, on the maker movement, […]
Our roundup of ten clever and useful projects for making blackboards and whiteboards.
