Bre Pettis on Makerbot at Gnomedex 9
Here’s our pal Bre Pettis’ Gnomedex presentation on Makerbot, what it is, how it came about, and his thoughts on bringing your ideas to market, collaborating, open sourcing, etc. Gnomedex
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Reminder: Use the MAKE Events Calendar!
This is just a friendly reminder to use the MAKE Events Calendar to post notices of your upcoming regular or one-time events and meetings. We’re getting too many events submitted each week to post them all here, so we’re hoping to get people in the habit of posting to the calendar and then, each week, […]
Lee Felsenstein on voltage dividers
We recently covered voltage dividers in our Ask MAKE column. In the above two videos, done by our pal Jeri Ellsworth, computer industry legend Lee Felsenstein (member of the Home Brew Computer Club and Osborne designer) explains voltage dividers and how to calculate them. Things get pretty thick by part II and I pretty much […]
Handmade Cthulhu mask
Artist Jennifer Harrison of Masks by Jen hand-tools and -paints leather to make this and other amazing custom masks.
Made On Earth — Cardboard Shredder
Mike Sheldrake’s boards are just fiberglass skin over computer-cut cardboard.
“Do-It-Yourself Guru Makes Treasures From Trash”
Our friend and author Tim Anderson on NPR…. “Do-It-Yourself Guru Makes Treasures From Trash”… In the world of do-it-yourselfers, Tim Anderson is a rock star. His 1983 Datsun pickup truck runs on bio-diesel, and he’s not above Dumpster diving. His only income-producing gig at the moment is writing a column for Make magazine about forgotten […]
Mark’s fabbed violin
Mark has been working on variations of this electric violin for a few months now at the Boston Fab Lab. For Friday’s Learn 2 Teach Project Exposition, he got it into a playable condition and demonstrated it to visitors at the South End Technology Center. He used Open Office Draw to design the files, and […]