Salvaging an old VCR
I guess I really should salvage my old VCR. There are some useful components in there! (Via Why, That’s Delightful!)
Makers
Maker Faire 2009 auditions reminder (this Sunday!)
If you’re going to be in the Bay Area this Sunday, and want to be considered for a maker slot at this year’s Bay Area Maker Faire (May 30-31, 2009), come by The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose. The museum is right across the street from where O’Reilly’s ETech Conference is being held, […]
If Brennon is our future…
… I think we’re going to be okay. Brennon Williams (whose work we’ve blogged about before) is a teen who’s passionate about science. Really passionate. He’s published a print science zine, runs several science-related blogs, and sends email to all of his science and tech heroes (who he calls his “pop stars”). Some of them […]
Repair is the new recycling
The Platform 21 manifesto: Platform 21
The Impact of MAKE and CRAFT
On Saturday, I was on a panel at a meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Mountain View. The program’s theme was “The Impact of Information Technology on Society” and I was on a panel on “Creative Arts and the Democratization of Craft”. The chair of the panel was Pat Hanrahan, Professor […]
Coraline 3D printing
Brief, but interesting article about the rapid prototyping technology used in the new stop-motion feature film Coraline. The Objet RP Polyjet technology uses photopolymer resin that is housed in cartridges and sprayed down in extremely thin 16 micron layers, four times thinner than the average human hair. As it’s sprayed down in liquid form, UV […]
Lost Knowledge: Village tech in West Papua, Indonesia
The weekly Lost Knowledge column explores the possible technology of the future in the forgotten ideas of the past (and those slightly off to the side). Each Tuesday, we look at retro-tech, “lost” technology, and the make-do, improvised “street tech” of village artisans and tradespeople from around the globe. “Lost Knowledge” is also the theme […]
