Being a year-round cyclist in Minnesota, Frank Yost had a problem. “Car drivers can lock things up while running errands,” he noticed, “so why should cyclists have to carry everything around with them?” And when Frank has a problem, he reaches for his pop-rivet gun. So he designed and built this all-weather, lockable College Bike […]
MAKE editor and publisher Dale Dougherty posted a pic of this Chinese issue of MAKE to his social network.
It’s a great honor for me to be able to use this Maker Birthdays forum to offer up an entry-day shout-out to one of my favorite living makers, Jeri Ellsworth. If ever there was someone for whom the fire for making appears to have been blazing since birth, it’s Jeri. She seems to live for […]
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 […]
