If you aren’t savvy to the phenomenon that is Club-Mate, it’s a caffeinated tea beverage brewed in Germany that’s been adopted by the hacker scene in that country as their official staying-up-late-and-coding beverage. It’s become so popular that it’s been imported to the U.S. where it fetches prices as high as $10 a bottle. Minneapolis […]
According to Mitch Altman, 22 hackerspaces were represented at Maker Faire Detroit. That’s quite an impressive turnout from the Midwest and Canada. OmniCorp Detroit (OCD) — Detroit, MI I3 — Ferndale, MI All Hands Active (AHA) — Ann Arbor, MI A2 MechShop — Ann Arbor, MI Site3 — Toronto, ON Hacklab.TO — Toronto, ON Kwartzlab […]
I can’t believe how little we’ve covered The Geek Group and how infrequently I bump into them in my DIY/maker travels, online and off. We’ll try and keep them on our radar from here on out. Looks like they’re doing some great stuff and have some of their projects documented on their website. [Thanks, Bob […]
Our friends at Syyn Labs, the folks who brought us the Rube Goldberg Machine for OK Go’s “This Too Shall Pass” music video, recently did some commercials for DieHard, one featuring Gary Numan performing his classic song “Cars” on actual cars (their tuned horns), playing them on a keyboard, all powered by a single DieHard […]
Becky spotted this delightful improvisation from Dutch artist Helmut Smits. Now we need somebody to put a printer in a windshield wiper blade that can print out graphics across the windshield and/or wipe them off on command. Or maybe a windshield wiper POV display? [via CRAFT]
MAKE editor in chief and Boing Boing potentato, Mark Frauenfelder, posted a nice piece about his favorite makers at this past weekend’s Maker Faire Detroit. David Smith makes beautiful handmade instruments, including cigar box ukuleles and this surprisingly sweet-sounding wire violin. Video of wire violin. These three boys are about to enter 6th grade. They […]
Jalopnik has a fun piece on this weekend’s Power Racing Series competition at Maker Faire Detroit. Two vehicles were super reliable and put on an endurance racing clinic. One, the “Pit Rats” of OmniCorps Detroit took the race with decent speed, good handling and unfaltering performance. They didn’t even need to come in for a […]
