On this week’s Make: Talk, we’ll be chatting with John Edgar Park, host of the Makers Workshop segment of Make: television. John will be talking to us about the show and about his articles in MAKE, especially the Florence Siphon Coffee Brewer from Volume 17. John is also a “character mechanic” for Disney and was […]
Joe Grand is always getting into something interesting. He’s been a contributor to the pages of MAKE since our very first issue. The man lives the MAKE ethos for sure: “Hardware hacking is, to me, a perfect example of ‘anti-establishment’. Make a product do something it was never intended to do, add a personal touch, and make it your own. Not just buying a product and using it as is (which is what The Man wants you to do!).”
[image from Adafruit] I love Tim O’Reilly’s Radar piece today, “It’s Always Ada Lovelace Day at O’Reilly:” I had a hard time choosing just one of the many marvelous women in tech that I might write about for Ada Lovelace Day, because, frankly, I’m surrounded by those women! Where so many think of the tech […]
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day for celebrating women in technology: Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace was born on 10th December 1815, the only child of Lord Byron and his wife, Annabella. Born Augusta Ada Byron, but now known simply as Ada Lovelace, she wrote the world’s first computer programmes for the Analytical […]
We’re excited about our Make: MINImarketplace section, which premiered in MAKE, Volume 17. Got something cool you want to sell, have a service to offer fellow readers, looking for some precious widget that only another maker might have stashed away in the garage? The Make: MINImarketplace offers a place for you to reach the maker […]
We’re very excited that our guest this afternoon will be Forrest M. Mims III, the amateur scientist and electronics guru, who wrote the iconic Getting Started in Electronics and the Engineer’s Mini-Notebook series for Radio Shack. Forrest also has a new column in MAKE, The Country Scientist, which premiered in Volume 17. Also, we’ll be […]
Environmentalist, artist, scientist, activist, and engineer are just a few of the hats that maker Natalie Jeremijenko wears, and she always seems to devise projects that blend her many talents seamlessly. Back in 2005, in MAKE Volume 02, we ran a profile of Natalie, where she aptly summed up: “I work on examining the cultural opportunities that technological innovations provide.”
