Last Call for Maker Faire Bay Area Makers
If you’ve got an awesome project you want to show off to the community at the largest DIY festival on Earth, you only have a few more days to get your application in.
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Drones & Vehicles
Flying Robotic Jellyfish Take to the Sky
Leif Ristroph and Stephen Childress from New York University have just released work with a new robotic ornithopter with a biomechanical design based not on traditional insects or birds, but rather on the aquatic jellyfish.
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Weekend Projects HOA – Pedal Power Phone Charger LIVE NOW
Join us TODAY at 3:30pm PT/6:30pm ET for our second Weekend Projects Hangout On Air. We’ll be talking with MAKE Technical Editor Sean Michael Ragan about the Pedal Power Phone Charger, a simple AC-to-DC generator circuit for charging your cell phone (or any other gadget that sips a steady stream of 5VDC) while on the […]
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At Maker Faire, Power Racing Cars Have Moxie
The Power Racing Series is one of the most dynamic events at Maker Faire, as speed-demon hackerspace members race around a track in hacked and modded toy cars. One of the PPPRS events is a “moxie” challenge where racers perform silly stunts for the crowd.
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Browse the 650+ Maker-Made Exhibits at World Maker Faire New York
We’re a mere three weeks away from our fourth annual World Maker Faire New York, and there will be over 650 maker-made exhibits on display!
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Announcing the Winners for NYC’s Road to Maker Faire Challenge
The winners for NYC’s first Road to Maker Faire Challenge are announced. Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all the makers who entered this one-of-a-kind contest. View a gallery of all the contestants on the blog.
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Pedal Power: The Quest for the 100 MPH Bicycle
England’s Tom Donhou makes some beautiful hand-built road and mountain bike frames. He got the idea to put his handiwork into action build (and pilot) a bike that could reach 100 miles per hour on the flats. Working in his shop and with England’s Royce he build a rocket of a bike with a monster front chain ring nearly as big as his wheels. !He was inspired by the homebuilt cars roaring across the salt flats of Utah. There are no salt flats in the U.K. so he choose a two-mile WWII-era runway. But his quest didn’t stop there. The short documentary below documents his efforts and those of his collaborators. It’s a great story of ingenuity, daring, and the maker spirit.
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