Maker Faire Bay Area 2010 on KRON 4
KRON Channel 4 (Bay Area station) ran a nice segment yesterday on Maker Faire Bay Area 2010. Check it out. Best of the Bay
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Maker Faire Detroit: Limitless Plotter interview
Only two weeks left until the first-ever Maker Faire Detroit takes place at The Henry Ford, on July 31 and August 1! It’s exciting learning about all the creative projects and people coming to the Faire. Today we chat with Nicholas Reed of the Limitless Plotter project. 1. Tell us about the project(s) you’re bringing […]
Coming Monday: The Make: Projects platform
We’ve been making allusions for a while now to a new area of the MAKE website, “to be launched soon.” Monday is blast-off! So, what are we launching? It’s our new! improved! (now with more WIN!) answer to the Make: Projects area. The new Make: Projects platform will be a place where we, Maker Media, […]
Switches designed to gross you out
Among other delights, there’s a switch that retreats into its enclosure when your finger approaches, a switch that extrudes a stream of snotty goo when pressed (and retracts it when released), and (my personal favorite) a hairy switch with a pilomotor reflex that makes the hairs stand up when you try to touch it. Squick! [via Hack a Day]
Machine-knit bags from Sternlab
Our own Becky Stern makes these beautiful drawstring pouches in three different sizes. They feature custom-designed knit patterns inside and out, with an extra layer of padding to protect your valuables. Good for your LARPing inventory, precious amulet, digital camera, or phone. Becky makes these to order, and will gladly produce any size/pattern/color combination from among those displayed in her shop.
Seattle Makers: Make:23 Party July 23rd
Release Party for Make:23 July 23rd, 6pm @ Ada’s Technical Books, Seattle, WA The newest issue of MAKE Magazine (Vol 23) features Seattle’s 3ric Johanson on the cover with a new weapon in the war on malaria: the Photonic Fence from Intellectual Ventures. Informally, it’s a laser-powered mosquito zapper. 3ric, who also opened Hackerbot Labs […]
MAKE, CRAFT, O’Reilly spotted on The IT Crowd set
If you’ve ever seen the Emmy-award-winning British geek sitcom The IT Crowd, you’ve probably spent half of your time scanning the background to pick out all of the great nerd collectibles and high-techery crammed into every scene. On the Channel4 website for the show, they have a zoomable, pannable tour of the IT basement and […]