Coffee, start to finish
What a cute video about roasting, grinding, and siphon-brewing coffee. Style points for the Gershon Kingsley soundtrack, and it’s not even Friday!
Makers
Fascination: Mackenzie Cowell
Mackenzie Cowell is one of the founders of DIYbio.org. He is featured in the most recent of our ongoing series of video interviews with notable makers, sponsored by Dow chemical, over at elementsofhumanity.com. Mac is a big advocate, not just of the fledgling discipline of synthetic biology (or “biological engineering,” as it’s coming to be […]
Prop art
There is in fact no evidence that this wonderful perpetually-drumming-fingers automaton by Nik Ramage was ever intended to be anything but a piece of art. But it had the bad fortune to come across my desk in the midst of the Make: Halloween Contest 2009 frenzy so I am hereby diminishing it to the status of Halloween prop. At least potentially. Personally, if I could afford one I’d leave it out all year under a spotlight. Beautiful.
Bling for your bricks
There’s almost nothing that makes me as happy as a little Lego entrepreneurship. Remember BrickArms? Well, now there’s ChromeBricks, which will custom electroplate Lego elements of your choice, in your choice of gold, chrome, or copper. [via The Brothers Brick]
Ignite talk on “Adapting with Technology”
Mark Argo give a terrific little five-minute talk on the history of DIY gadgetry and what we can learn from past as we try to forge a more personalized, DIY future. Ignite
End of Summer BBQ Potluck for Portland Makers
If you’re an Oregono or otherwise planning to be in Portland environs on September 26th, you should consider stopping by the Portland TechShop at 3:00PM to participate in their shendig. Bring a dish and a project for show-and-tell. There’ll be an egg-drop and prizes. Sponsored by MAKE:PDX.
Maker Birthdays: H.G. Wells
Happy birthday to H.G. Wells, born September 21, 1866. It would be hard to quantify the impact that ol’ Herbert George had on science fiction, science and technology, and even politics and culture. As with many sci-fi writers, I’m certain that countless scientists and engineers decided to go into their field inspired by his fantastic […]