Two members of our MAKE family, our indexer and blog contributor Patti Schiendelman, and Eccentric Cubicle author Kaden Harris, have launched a new blog The Genteel Recessionista: Practical Lore for Modest Times. Congrats, guys! Looking forward to seeing what your victory garden grows. Here’s the first post, from Kaden, to give you some idea of […]
Max Wallack is a kid who thinks big. When he saw the Trash to Treasure design contest at By Kids For Kids, he knew he could come up with an idea. Since he was really young, he’s been active in designing and developing solutions. “If you have the ability to help people, then you have […]
On the site “Dave Makes,” Dave Jacob Hoffman unveils his new video series HELLO, profiling interesting people. In his first episode, he interviews Eric Michaud, President of Pumping Station: One, a new Chicago hackerspace. Eric was also one of the co-founders of my local hackerspace HacDC. HELLO Pumping Station: One
O’Reilly Media has just launched the Ignite Show, a weekly five-minute video program showcasing the best of geek culture as presented at Ignite sessions from around the world. The format is half the fun with Ignite–speakers are allowed 20 slides that auto-forward every 15 seconds, whether they’re ready or not. Organized by volunteers in the […]
On the 15th of February 1564 in Pisa Italy, Galileo Galilei was born. A skilled mathematician, philosopher, and physicist, Galileo is widely known for his contributions to astronomy. By grinding his own lenses and experimenting with new designs, Galileo greatly improved and popularized the telescope – making possible his own detailed study of the planets. […]
On William J. Turkel’s Digital History Hacks site, he writes (back in Dec): In December 2004, I bought a copy of Joe Martin’s Tabletop Machining to see what would be involved in learning how to make clockwork mechanisms and automata. It was pretty obvious that I had many years of study ahead of me, but […]
Today is Jules Verne’s birthday. Verne was born in Nantes, France on February 8, 1828 and died on March 24, 1905. Along with H.G. Wells, his work gave birth to the science fiction genre. One of the things Verne pioneered, and much of the sci-fi to follow has emulated, was writing about the fantastic upon […]
